SciFi guy leads anti-gays
Deseret News/Mormon Times columnist and science fiction writer Orson Scott Card is being anointed as a leader in the campaign to ban gay marriage.
Card recently joined the National Organization for Marriage's board of directors. You'll remember NOM best for its ad "Gathering Storm" that warns of the degeneracy of gay unions. (Probably more Americans have seen the parodies of the ad than the ad itself).
Card apparently is replacing Matt Holland, son of LDS apostle Jeffrey R. Holland, on NOM's board. Many gay rights activists believe NOM is a Mormon church front group. (Matt Holland has become the president of Utah Valley University and as a Trib colleague pointed out, "You gotta feel sorry for the gay-lesbian club at UVU.")
People For the American Way is calling on NOM, which strenuously claims not to be homophobic, to to reject Card's statements in his MormonTimes column. People For the American Way president Michael Keegan, who refers to Card as a "gossip columnist," says Card advocated overthrowing the government if same-sex marriage is permitted:
From Card's column:
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. Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.Keegan says:
It is one thing for a science fiction writer to have such views, but it's something much different for a national organization like the NOM to endorse those views by giving Card such a prominent position on its board. We call on the NOM to categorically reject Card's radical statements.
4 Comments:
Wow, Card is more than a bit scary! I just don't understand what this amorphous "threat" is that everyone keeps harping on. No one ever seems to explain it. Reminiscent of the "threat" that the negros presented in the fifties, and the ERA in the seventies... I mean really, what harm can it possibly do to a heterosexual marriage, to allow gays to marry? I believe that the government should actually get out of the marriage business for all couples, and officiate at civil unions. If people want a religious ceremony, then they can have one at a church, and churches can do their ceremony any way they want, as they do for baptisms or communion, or bar mitzvahs, and it would have the same legal standing as a baptism, bar mitzvah, or the druid ceremony for the new moon.
Orson Scott Card wrote, in an editorial published by the Deseret Times, that if the government were to allow same-sex marriage, he would rise up against that government.
These mormons are a threat to national security. I hope they all get thrown in prison.
This guy is more than a nut. He's a national security problem. He and others who think like him belong in prison.
Someone should put an extermination order against these mormons before it's too late. If they're allowed to live, they might breed more of these mormons. We must put these mormons and anyone else we disagree with in prison to show that we're more moderate and sensible than them. And also because Orson Scott Card speaks on behalf of all these mormons.
His fiction is as spongy as his gut.
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