Orson Scott Card advocates criminalizing homosexuality, overthrowing US govt.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Orson Scott Card, the Hugo and Nebula-winning author of Ender's Game and many other books, holds a variety of controversial, far-right political views. He has staunchly opposed gay marriage, and last week he joined the board of the anti-gay marriage organization, the National Organization for Marriage. But the JoeMyGod blog has discovered a column Card wrote last year in which he advocated the actual criminalization of homosexuality and the overthrow of the US government if gay marriage is made legal.
"If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law," Card wrote, "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."
The Americablog has pointed out that Card is a high-profile Mormon who joined the NMO at a time when the organization is denying accusations that it's actually a front for the LDS, and that the LDS have had a history of violent clashes with the US government.
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"If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law," Card wrote, "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."
The Americablog has pointed out that Card is a high-profile Mormon who joined the NMO at a time when the organization is denying accusations that it's actually a front for the LDS, and that the LDS have had a history of violent clashes with the US government.
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1 comments:
Card did *not* suggest overthrowing the government. Nobody makes this distinction. He said that *others* will wish to do it if they have homosexuality "forced" on them. I strongly disagree with Card's position and find it laughable, but it's worth pointing out what he really said.
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