Concerned mother appalled by same-sex marriage in The Game of Life, posts story on Christian site
One concerned mother was spending some quality time with her daughter while playing The Game of Life, a video game adaptation of Milton Bradley’s board game. To her surprise, the supposedly child-friendly title allows same-sex marriages to occur – something that she was not prepared to explain to her 6-year-old daughter. She later writes to conservative Christian site, WorldNetDaily, to air her story. Read more.
One concerned mother was spending some quality time with her daughter while playing The Game of Life, a video game adaptation of Milton Bradley’s board game. To her surprise, the supposedly child-friendly title allows same-sex marriages to occur – something that she was not prepared to explain to her 6-year-old daughter. She later writes to conservative Christian site, WorldNetDaily, to air her story.
“You know how kids are,” the mother told WND. “My daughter noticed right away (even before I did) and clicked on one of the girls instead of one of the men and then asked, ‘Mom, how come I can marry a woman?’ And then that led into a lot more questions that, quite frankly, I was not ready to talk to my 6-year-old about.”
The mother then went on to post her objection on the game’s review board. “I went back to the web site and left a very respectful review of the game just stating that this kind of thing should be left out of kids’ games, and the Shockwave.com administrator removed my post, stating it was inappropriate,” she told WND. “I had no idea how insidious they were being with pushing the homosexual agenda.”
“Your guidelines ask us to ‘keep your language safe for the kids,’ yet here’s a game where children may choose homosexual marriage and child-rearing,” WND wrote. “Many sections of society accept this as normative, but many also would consider this too mature a theme for children. Others would consider this downright offensive. Is it appropriate to include, for example, lesbianism in this game?”
Hmmm. Lesbianism is too mature a theme for children? I don’t think that asking, “How come I can marry a woman?” is any different from, “Where do babies come from?” It’s not the game’s fault if she’s shielding her kid from reality, and they won’t be gay just because they were educated about it in their formative years. The only reason that lesbianism and making babies are under different categories is because homosexuality is frowned upon. My two cents. What do you think?
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Via WorldNetDaily