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[tenlittlebullets]

Well, Orson Scott Card just posted a long, long rant against gay marriage... I hate that he's such a good writer, but in real life he's such an ass. Guess that's what being a devout Mormon can do to you. Although, it would just be funny to see him--or any other Mormon, for that matter--trying to use the 'slippery slope down to polygamy' argument... *snort*

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[misentropic.livejournal.com]

I know a liberal mormon. She's very sweet and pro-gay and I'm glad she's not Orson Scott Card. *squishes her* And, on the same note, the mormon church excommunicated all the 'mormons' who practice polygamy, so the polygamists are kind of radicals and the mormon church Does Not Like Them. That's your useless information for today.

As for Card, I wish I'd had the chance to read Ender's Game before he turned out to be a sodmunch, because now if I try to read it I'll keep thinking "HOMOPHOBE!" and it'll ruin the book. But yes. Talented people should not be assholes.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is that you'd never guess it by reading his books--it's not as apparent in Ender's Game, but in Ender's Shadow and Speaker for the Dead there's a lot of questioning of the church and general dissing of religion, and apparently there's even gay sex in Songmaster. It's very odd, and you get the feeling he's not just mindlessly following the church's teachings but has actually formed these opinions for himself. Which, IMO, is a lot scarier.

Anyway, Ender's Game, sadly enough, is a really great book--probably one of my favorites--and I usually just force myself to forget what a fucktard Card is while I'm reading it. Thankfully it's not that hard, because it really is a good book.