The video game industry starts to drink the same-sex “marriage” poison.

Yeah, yeah I know. The video game industry has peddled gratuitous criminal violence, fornication and other other offenses against chastity (even if heteronormative) for years; so what’s one more offense? Well, sometimes it takes just one more straw to make you re-evaluate what pop-culture ephemera you let into the house. After implying the usual dubious connection to the civil-rights movement, this article gets to the point:

With The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim, this forward march to awarding recognition for same sex marriage has now reached the video game world.

While same sex relationships is not new in RPG video games, this year’s Dragon Age 2 featured a same sex relationship between former Grey Warden Anders and Karl. However, The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim will actually allow same sex marriage not just same sex relationships. The news broke through Bethesda community/ PR point man, Pete Hines through his Twitter feed. He wanted to point out that Bethesda didn’t feel the need to make a big deal of the subject. There was no move on their part to keep it hush hush.

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Masster of Puppets

If you ever have seen this:

Or this:

Or this:

And wondered where it all comes from, Brian Craig commenting at Bad Vestments provides the answer and some trenchant commentary:

 

The left-wing puppet aesthetic goes back to the 1960s and Bread and Puppet Theater, which performed at all sorts of protests and featured a giant Uncle Sam puppet. Given that many of these current Catholic dissidents cut their teeth back then, it’s easy for them to have borrowed the idea.

And as for using them in churches, I guess it’s the same as breaking into a missile plant and spray-painting graffiti. The mentality is to go right to the source of what you’re protesting. You’re right, however, to point out that it shows a complete loss of understanding of what goes on in a church, especially at Mass.

 

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“Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it was stolen last Thursday”

On the London riots, I read this comment over at UR:

 

Something else the mainstream media is not reporting:

the guy that was shot was a member of the Tottenham Man Dem gang (he may even have been one of the core members). The individuals that started the riots, and continued the majority of them, were from that gang, and other affiliated street gangs. The left are playing this as “poor revolutionary underclass” angle, when it is really urban street gangs acting with impunity.

It’s classic anarcho-tyranny in action.

I am reminded of a 2007 article by Mark Steyn called “Bold as Brass” which described thieves’ stealing brass fixtures right off people’s doors, manhole covers, and even the lead off the rooftop of the courthouse:

Britain’s metal crime is a poignant image of social disintegration: The very infrastructure of society – the manhole covers, the pipes, the cables on the transportation system, the fittings of the courthouse – is being cannibalized and melted down. When there’s no longer a sufficiently strong moral consensus and when the state actively disapproves of a self-reliant citizenry, what’s left is the law. And law detached from any other social pillars is not enough, and never can be.

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Quote of the Day

Amy P. over at MCJ on the Christian whining about the debt ceiling:

when the Christian left stops its…colorful…interpretations of Christian doctrine concerning abortion and gay marriage (both of which have, traditionally been firm no-nos), I’ll start listening to them on their interpretations concerning fiscal issues (which neither advocate nor demand the socialism they’re extolling).

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Read Second City Cop

When Mencius Moldbug isn’t playing fast and loose with history (and that is meant as a compliment), he’s pointing you to off-the-beaten-path links. Recently it is the blog of a Chicago police officer called Second City Cop. Here he is remarking on the local CBS channel and its fudging to make a story fit a pre-packaged anti-cop/gun narrative. CBS interviewed a four year old boy about the violence in the city and asked if he would someday get away from all the guns. He said no, when he got older he was going to get a gun. Horrifying, no? Well,  what CBS left out was that the boy was going to have a gun because he wanted to be a police officer:

 

So a four-year-old wants a gun, not to commit mayhem, not to murder people, but to become a police officer – what should be viewed as an honorable profession for an upstanding citizen, someone who should be looked up to in the community, especially a community that sees a majority of violent acts perpetrated in the city. But not at CBS and its anti-police/anti-gun-driven agenda. That black child needs a gun to kill people. To defend drug turf. To continue four, five, six generations of failure.

And as police officers, we should be doubly insulted. A four-year-old recognizes the police officer as someone who stops the mayhem, who defends the wounded, who cleans up the mess left behind by gunfire in his own community – and he aspires to be one of us for however brief a moment – and then CBS uses him as a prop. A prop to advance more than a few agendas by direct manipulation and by omission.

Where’s Mary Mitchell and her bleating “respect” now? Where’s the extortionist Jesse and his demands for accountability now? You have a media conglomerate broadcasting and reinforcing a stereotype they claim is held only by the police and benighted racist Republicans trying to return to the pre-Civil Rights days, yet all we hear are crickets? We give Mary, Jesse and their ilk a lot of grief (and rightly so) over their anti-police agenda because it’s poorly thought out and based on so much fantasy, exaggeration and imagined victim-hood. Here’s a root cause of it all, but since CBS is part of the liberal media elite, they’re blind, deaf and stupid.

 

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