Posted on 07/09/2013 4:25:52 PM PDT by Ripliancum
The author of the novel "Ender's Game" has spoken out about the controversy that's flared up over the upcoming movie adaptation in the past few days, but he doesn't sound eager to smooth ruffled feathers, declaring the statements that angered fans are "moot."
Geeks OUT, a group that "rallies, empowers, and promotes the queer geek community," are calling for a boycott of the "Ender's Game" movie based on statements about gay marriage made by Orson Scott Card, who wrote the much-loved young adult sci-fi novel in 1985. Card, a strongly outspoken opponent of gay marriage, wrote of the subject in a 2008 op-ed piece for a Salt Lake City newspaper, declaring, "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."
As Geeks OUT's campaign has gained media attention, Card has issued a statement, and anyone hoping he'd sound apologetic is out of luck.
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Your logic seems a tad flawed. Hollywood made the movie. So they supported the author. Regardless, this is still my favorite book. I’ve read it thrice. And I will again before I see the movie.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
-- G.K. Chesterton
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Sandy, why do you go around calling fellow FREEPERs "goons" anyway?
Is that being Mormonically polite?
If you believe these "goons" are your spiritual bros & sistahs from "premordialville," is this the way you treat your supposed "spiritual siblings?"
“Sandy, why do you go around calling fellow FREEPERs “goons” anyway?”
Next you will try to throw water in my face. The worst form of persecution on earth...
OK, I’m ready. Throw away!
I really MUCH prefer the HOSE; as it can be directed more accurately.
I made a grave mistake in voting for McCain and vowed "never again". Romney as the "R" candidate hardened my resolve, not only was he even more liberal than McCain, he is guilty of that part of your statement that I high lighted and under lined. I'll never regret not voting for Romney. I didn't vote for Obama either.
For those who hoot that not voting for Romney was the same as voting for Obama - Frankly, I don't give a damn.
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