Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sigh...

So sad. In a Mormon Times column published last August, Orson Scott Card called for the overthrow of the government over same-sex marriage. He said:
If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn't require a husband or father, and that homosexuality is as valid a choice as heterosexuality for their future lives, then why in the world should married people continue to accept the authority of such a government? What these dictator-judges do not seem to understand is that their authority extends only as far as people choose to obey them. How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

3 comments:

  1. This makes me sad, too. And a little freaked out!

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  2. OSC is a deeply screwed up person with regards to sex. Have you read Songmaster, Monkey Sonatas or Hart's Hope (or more terrifyingly, the short story I think was entitled "Blue Angels")?

    Here is a man who had not one, but two children with Down Syndrome after his wife was in her forties (one is sad, two is willfully hurting a child). He is a lunatic extremist. (Also, I'm pretty sure all of his children are adults or very close, so that's a specious argument.)

    Although there are a BUNCH of reasons Mormon's are anti gay marriage (not just standard homo-phobia which I hate to say, is truly there) OSC's arguments are unbelievably stupid.

    But every liberal in the world threatened to leave the country or secede more than once after Bush was elected and re-elected. It's just a phase they'll get over it too.

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  3. And now that I think about it, from having read Ender's Game, it's very homoerotic. The little boys showered together, and "fought" naked together. Orson might be repressing his own homosexual urges by being so violently opposed to gays and gay marriage. Just a thought.

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