And I thought Gaming was supposed to bring people together.

Why do subjects such as sexual orientation and religion have to be a part of gaming?  One of the reasons I love gaming is BECAUSE I don't have to deal with these two subjects.  Some people prefer not to have any arguments about it.  I would rather nobody come on N4G to tell his religious views or sexual orientation, especially because this young bunch of people often make rude subtle attacks against people of different beliefs and different orientations, and it's simply not right. There are people who come to these forums and post comments that attack religious people.  For example, "You believe in God? You're a delusional, narrow-minded fanatic."  That's rude, and hypocritical.  Especially when you make an assumption about someone based solely on their religious beliefs.  For all you know, one religious person might be smarter and more open-minded than a particular atheist.  It just goes to show that a human being cannot be judged because of what they believe.  And a man who calls another man narrow-minded based on a false generalization truly gives meaning to the words narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy.

Also, there are so many people here who are saying bad things about gay people and quite frankly I am astounded at these rude, inconsiderate comments.  Even though you have a right to believe whatever you want, you shouldn't come to these boards and make those kinds of homophobic comments, and please don't bring up your first amendment rights.  They give you the right to voice an opinion but you have to have the temperament and the intelligence to recognize when you must exercise that right.  The First Amendment does not give you the right to be an A-hole, or at least it shouldn't.  You can't just say something harsh and negative about homosexuality just because it pleases you to say it; your right of speech is designated for your own defense against the government's potential to become tyrannical and if you don't believe me go research it.  When you make homophobic or anti-religious or anti-atheist comments, you are not being constructive, you are being hurtful (for example, "telling an atheist he is going to hell" is not nice).  And believe me, even if you have heard the quote, "He's a big boy, he can take it," it's not true.   We live in a world where little boys and girls who made fun of each other in kindergarten and threw little pebbles at each other and smacked each other with stones have now gotten older and shoot each other with guns and throw stones at people they hate until they die and start wars with other countries with grenade launchers and M16s and tanks and bazookas and nuclear missiles and car bombs.  That's the kind of world we live in.  When we were kids it was all fun and games.  But now we're adults and we have more harmful weapons to "play" with.  And words are some of the most harmful of weapons.

What I'm saying is that gaming should not be concerned with subject matters such as this, and I've never felt that it was necessary to have it.  If a game happens to come out that allows the player to be a gay character or a Jewish character or whatever, then good for that game.  It promotes the idea of equality without being offensive.  We should always treat each other with respect, because in my opinion wars don't start because of religion or money or things like that.  In my opinion, wars start because we're all still just acting like a bunch of kids who got their feelings hurt.