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Texas Governor As E3 Keynote Speaker Causes Strife
Zonk pointed out a post on Joystiq highlighting a recent tantrum thrown by the ESA. Apparently the ESA didn't appreciate the framing GamePolitics chose to use for a story about E3's Keynote speaker and Texas Governor, Rick Perry. GamePolitics continues to call Perry into question as a choice for keynote speaker, saying: "While there are surely many Christians among E3 attendess, there are just as surely many who aren't. Aside from the fact that Perry was a bizarre keynote choice from the get-go, his divisive comments indicate that the ESA should rescind the offer. We have to ask again: why is E3 2008 being politicized? The answer, we suspect, has much to do with embattled ESA boss Michael Gallagher."
Bagging a governor as a keynote speaker is generally a good thing PR wise. Some dipshits who can't see that is nothing new, and can't resist tunring an ordinary thing into yet another opportunity to flog their fringe political positions is all too common.
Summary after reading the links: Nothing to see here, move along.
Democrat delenda est
That's poppycock.
Either you don't comprehend that people's value systems affect how they make decisions, and the overwhelming majority of decisions are subjective, or you are intentionally attempting to prohibit free expression of those with whom you do not agree.
As an example, "If people were really religious for the right reasons they would have no problem keeping their religion private." is nothing more than you proclaiming that anyone with a religious view should not enjoy public expression.
Freedom of religion is not prohibition of religion. All laws are codifications of the moral views of the aggregate society, imperfect as they are. Your statement that an elected official must "compartmentalize their religion" is ludicrous. What you want is to prohibit people from believing or expressing anything other than that which you think.
What an evil thought process you have.