Posted on 08/03/2013 12:43:41 PM PDT by Ripliancum
Orson Scott Card, whose science-fiction book Ender's Game is being released as a film, is a conservative Mormon with a long history of attacking gay people and their rights. He's also one of the most respected sci-fi writers of all time. This has really got sci-fi fans and gay rights activists in a moral dilemma as the momentum for the film builds up to its November 1 release.
Orson Scott Card has gone far beyond opposing gay marriage. In 1990, he wrote in Mormon publication Sunstone Magazine, “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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at policymic.com ...
Worse still, Goldberg stated in her one way that age of consent is malleable concept. One with which she was comfortable in lowering even as young as 13.
“We’re a different kind of society, we see things differently ... would I want my 14-year-old having sex with somebody? Not necessarily, no.”
I have a signed copy by the author. I hope the producers have the guts to make the whole trilogy, and now bow to the homeopolitical pressure.
I could have worded that better. More like you gave her the benefit of the doubt. She’s just awful.
We do?!!!
Thanks for the kind remarks!
Enders Game is up there with some of the best sci fi ever written.
I just go see movies I like, I don’t worry about that other stuff, just makes things complicated. Next up for me Grabbers.
Ender’s Game is an intriguing book. I wasn’t aware it becoming a movie.
I didn’t care for any of the Ender sequels, though.
I’ll have to catch this flick.
It’s actually 7 books now. But most of them are terrible. Actually all the ones I’ve tried to read that aren’t the first are crap.
No. Not believing they should be allowed to legally marry is not attacking them or their "rights"
The book had the kids run around naked sometimes, if that isn’t in the film I might see it.
Our ancestors had a name for this kind of flagrant liable. "Obloquy."
LGBTQs and lefties in general would pretty much all condemn the so-called “red scare” blacklisting of Communists in the 1950s, yet they are nearly unanimous in their enthusiasm over blacklisting Card and others who dare to resist the homosexual agenda.
They are not “liberals”, they are simply brown-shirts and thugs.
The trailer shows lots of different uniforms. I imagine they will leave out the naked parts or film around those details.
and in the book here were maybe 3 or 4 girls in all of Battle School, the film clip I saw had a lot of girls.
Don’t be ridiculous. If Card opposes the acceptance of homosexuality, then I support him in that effort. If we were talking about supporting him in converting people to Mormonism, then I wouldn’t support him, unless he was converting godless leftwing nutbags, in which case, Mormonism is a damn sight better than leftwing nutbaggery. Your silly suggestion not to support Card in this is of a self-defeating nature that borders on trolling.
I want to see attacking and I want to see what rights are being denied.
THEN perhaps we'll have and even field of battle here.
“Don’t be ridiculous. If Card opposes the acceptance of homosexuality, then I support him in that effort. If we were talking about supporting him in converting people to Mormonism, then I wouldn’t support him, unless he was converting godless leftwing nutbags, in which case, Mormonism is a damn sight better than leftwing nutbaggery. “
This kind of a conclusion has its priorities all backwards. What does it matter if some leftwing fellow becomes a Mormon and then promptly goes straight to hell where he was going before? The priority of Christianity isn’t on good-living or having right morality. The priority of Christianity is the Gospel, which is about what Christ did for us on the cross, and not on what we allegedly do for Him. Built on this proper foundation, morality naturally flows from it, and the country is better. But to setup a Mormon on high as some kind of a defender of American values —when really not too long ago their leaders were damning people to hell for not being polygamists, and they still currently teach obscenities, such as the idea that Christ is the product of sexual relations between “Elohim” and one of his goddess wives— instead of keeping well away from them, as we would any cult, whether it be the Scientologists or whoever else who also agree against homosexuality, is to compromise the Gospel, which is the only path of salvation, regardless of how pure you live your life.
While your view isn’t “trolling,” it is short sighted and lacks discernment.
This makes as much sense as:
Why Do We enjoy eating apples But oranges make us sick.
Why link them together at all?
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