Comments on: Orson Scott Card, homophobic terrorist, against the orderly pursuit of happiness

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:27:46 +0000

Indeed. Love for everyone sounds a lot better than the sort of family structures folks like OSC believe in.
All strict and stuff.
Ick. Bleck. I hate that.

By: Allen Shan

Allen Shan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:41:14 +0000

I don’t know what’s wrong with being gay. OSC make things complicated. The time your talking about has passed and now we’re going to think for our future, a future that’s full of love and peace. When will this be end?

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:26:03 +0000

It’s like he has no understanding of what makes society really healthy. Including gays is better for society than excluding them. OSC drives me so UP A TREE.

Also your five part essay about OSC was quite excellent. I don’t understand why he goes on and on about the leftiban, when he’s sort of… well… more like the taliban than those on the left are. It’s a wonder he’s not for arranged marriages to ensure that EVERYONE marries. He totally leaves out love as a requirement for marriage. Love, tenderness, trust. What about those things? It’s not enough to just pump out babies all day long after getting married. Dude’s obviously never read History of Marriage books. Who wants to go back to that? You need good, stable healthy marriages. Which includes GAY MARRIAGES!
Sure this fellow has written lines such as in Lost Boys that made me cry, but dang, I just can’t take the homophobia and taking over characters to go on and on about heteronormative families. UGH. Ender in Exile was nothing but that.

But there’s Neil Gaiman to consider. Yay!

By: Yonmei

Yonmei — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:56:24 +0000

I actually find that kind of argument quite repellant, sorry. Orson Scott Card clearly has a whole bunch of issues about being gay: that does not, however, go to prove that he himself is gay.

Writing a novel in which kids exercise naked does not serve as any indication that the author is a paedophile.

By: Cindi

Cindi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:37:04 +0000

I am new to OSC and am just now reading Ender’s Game because my daughter was introduced to it in school. After a few chapters (once we got into the small children all being naked together and him following the “beautiful” male leader) I started assuming OSC was homosexual and possibly a pedifile. I googled him and was EXTREMELY surprised to see his take on homosexuality. It kind of screams to me that one doth protest too much.

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By: Rainer

Rainer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:07:17 +0000

Me thinks (perhaps) he protests too much.

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