EA Strikes Back at Anti-Gay Letter Campaign

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;06222734&sol;EA-Strikes-Back&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10379" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;06222734&sol;EA-Strikes-Back&period;jpg" alt&equals;"EA Strikes Back at Anti-Gay Letter Campaign" width&equals;"515" height&equals;"287" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Electronic Arts&comma; winner of this year’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ea-voted-worst-company-2012&sol;">Worst Company in America<&sol;a>&comma;” has received a lot of heat from right wing Christian groups for allowing gay-friendly content in its games&period;  The Florida Family Association is accusing EA of corrupting children and giving into pressure from LGBT groups in a letter campaign&period; EA is not going down without a fight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every one of EA’s games includes ESRB content descriptors so it’s hard to believe anyone is surprised by the content&period; This isn’t about protecting children&comma; it’s about political harassment&comma;” corporate communications vice-president Jeff Brown said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;EA has not been pressured by any groups to include LGBT characters in our games&period; However&comma; we have met with LBGT groups and sponsored industry forums to discuss content and harassment of players in online forums&period; In short&comma; we do put options for same-sex relationships in our games&semi; we don’t tolerate hate speech on our forums&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Being attacked by fundamentalists is nothing new for EA&period; Shortly after <em>The Old Republic<&sol;em> launched&comma; the Family Research Group said they gay content would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;warp” children&period; The letter campaign seems to be another attempt to force a company to follow a certain group’s religious beliefs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Human-Rights Campaign is currently working on a petition to thank EA for their stance on the issue and stating that the anti-gay group is actually rather small&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;destructoid&period;com&sol;ea-defends-itself-against-homophobic-hate-mail-225261&period;phtml&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;feedburner&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;feed&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;Feed&percnt;3A&plus;Destructoid&plus;&percnt;28Destructoid&percnt;29">Destuctoid<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;