February 27, 2004
Shame on Orson Scott Card
In a shameful display of homophobia, Card has written an article against gay marriage, claiming that the "dark secret of homosexuality" is that homosexuals only want to get married to give themselves a false sense of normality. Card also wrote a well-publicized article back in 1990 entitled "The Hypocrites of Homosexuality," which is even more anti-gay. Goes to prove that artistic talent and being a good person don't always go hand in hand. Shame on him.
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Orson Scott Card: Criminalize Homosexual Behavior
Orson Scott Card is famous for his science fiction, but less well-known are his strong political and religious views. People may have recently read his laughable claims to being a Democrat, but he might just as well claim that he isn't homophobic. Oh, wait, he already does that as well...
In "Nauvoo" Card writes:
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.
The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail. The goal is to discourage people from engaging in homosexual practices in the first place, and, when they nevertheless proceed in their homosexual behavior, to encourage them to do so discreetly, so as not to shake the confidence of the community in the polity's ability to provide rules for safe, stable, dependable marriage and family relationships. Card doesn't simply think that homosexual behavior is sinful - a person can think that without also being homophobic. The problem here is that Card goes quite a bit further. He believes that homosexuality is a threat to heterosexual marriages and heterosexual relationships - probably because he doesn't define "homosexuality" correctly.
A Mormon, Card adopts the evangelical Christian understanding of "homosexuality" which stipulates that it is simply a behavior which can be stopped (like stealing or taking drugs) rather than an orientation which is a fundamental part of who one is. In this latter and accurate understanding of homosexuality, the idea that gays are a threat to straight relationships would be comedic if it weren't so tragic.
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http://atheism.about.com/b/a/053881.htmAnd as if it's not bad enough to be a homophobe, Card is also Anti-Trek!
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Orson Scott Card: Trek is dead? It's about time!
posted May 3 2005, 7:33 pm by fiziko
Category: Star Trek Daemonik writes, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game amongst many outstanding Sci-Fi novels, has thrown down the gauntlet in the L.A. Times and
said that it's about time that Trek has died. What took so long? Star Trek, as Card claims, is Sci-Fi as Hollywood saw it, a throwback to the 30's adventure stories with no regard for science or deeper ideas and little interest in plot arcs or character growth. That writers like Ellison, LeGuin, Silverberg, Niven and more were pumping out outstanding science fiction stories with fertile passion makes the public's near religious adulation of Star Trek all the more questionable. Faced today with examples such as "Lost", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Firefly" and "Smallville" to put the spotlight on just how bad Trek really is, people are still fighting to save this show. So I ask you, does the death of Trek fill you with childish glee or are you storming Paramount's gates, Batleths drawn?
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