Green Lantern relaunched as gay
link to some website about it and the subsequent inevitable pages of religious arguments that follow
I'm not a fan of retcon (retroactive continuity changes) or, really of "reboots," where they take an established character and just have them start over from the beginning, a different person. I mean, does this happen ever in reality, ever? No, unless you want to get into reincarnation.
I wouldn't mind if they just started a new character, a new book, or just said that a character had a change of heart, but rebooting is weird.
That said, I have no problems with a certain Alan Scott, Green Lantern, being gay.
In keeping with the spirit of such things, here are my own personal religious rants (not anti-religion, just... well w/ev
I just wish I knew why anti-gay religious people so willfully ignore one of the basic tenets in the bible: Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself.
I mean, sometimes it seems all they want to do (not all of them, just the anti-gay protester types) is judge and condemn, judge and condemn. I went to Catholic school for years and what I was taught is that we fallible and limited humans cannot comprehend the full complexity of the universe and the afterlife as God has planned it, so we should not judge, but leave judgment and condemnation in God's hands. Our role is to live good lives, and to do good, and to accept other people and treat them as we would like to be treated ourselves.
I'm not a fan of retcon (retroactive continuity changes) or, really of "reboots," where they take an established character and just have them start over from the beginning, a different person. I mean, does this happen ever in reality, ever? No, unless you want to get into reincarnation.
I wouldn't mind if they just started a new character, a new book, or just said that a character had a change of heart, but rebooting is weird.
That said, I have no problems with a certain Alan Scott, Green Lantern, being gay.
In keeping with the spirit of such things, here are my own personal religious rants (not anti-religion, just... well w/ev
I just wish I knew why anti-gay religious people so willfully ignore one of the basic tenets in the bible: Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself.
I mean, sometimes it seems all they want to do (not all of them, just the anti-gay protester types) is judge and condemn, judge and condemn. I went to Catholic school for years and what I was taught is that we fallible and limited humans cannot comprehend the full complexity of the universe and the afterlife as God has planned it, so we should not judge, but leave judgment and condemnation in God's hands. Our role is to live good lives, and to do good, and to accept other people and treat them as we would like to be treated ourselves.