Comments on: Sci-Fi Writer Advocates Overthrow of Government If Prop 8 Fails

By: Get Your Own Fridge – Orson Scott Card and Superman | The Nerd Signal

Get Your Own Fridge – Orson Scott Card and Superman | The Nerd Signal — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:49:04 +0000

[...] Card has gone as far as rewriting Hamlet to link homosexuallity with pedeophilia (no, seriously). He wrote that if Prop 8 failed in California, he would “act to destroy that government and bring it down, [...]

By: Main Street Plaza » The Religious Right is Swiftboating Same Sex Marriage in Maine

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:25:12 +0000

[...] Orson Scott Card who called for the overthrow of civil government if Prop 8 failed in California. According to an op-ed in the July 24, 2008 Mormon Times, Card said: “How long before married people answer the [...]

By: Grigorii

Grigorii — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:40:46 +0000

Glad to found this interesting article. Never knew this, but its logged with me now. I never read many of his books anyway. How I found this site was searching “anti gay scifi writers” since I wished to post some horrid finding in a LeSprague De Camp book I was reading which stated gays must be kept away from any boys because they were all potential molestors. Just sick stupdity!

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hazelnutty.net › Orson Scott Card Joins NOM Board — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:09:55 +0000

[...] Mormon, and has made some pretty ridiculous claims about homosexuals: Last summer, Orson Scott Card called for the overthrow of civil government if California’s Proposition 8 had failed. Writing for the Mormon Times, he said: “Regardless of [...]

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:04:46 +0000

Ender’s Game features young men wrestling each other in the shower, naked, while covered in soap. Methinks Card has some issues.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:52:23 +0000

This even made the monologue on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This kind of P.R. is not helping the Proposition 8 folk in California. This should be where we can show a link of the irrational religious zealous in Utah as one of the crazed proponents of Proposition 8.

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:10:41 +0000

Beautifully ironic! Western Civilization is destroyed after all . . . by the heterosexuals!

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:42:40 +0000

WOW! I have read his ender series, I really liked it. Out of it I got the idea of Love being the main and important force in the universe and that tolerance for others must be paramount… I hate when I find out stuff about authors I thought I knew….

By: NancyP

NancyP — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:07:33 +0000

The short story Ender’s Game was a decent one, if rather obvious even at the time (child raised in what amounts to a video game school, with a bit of kung fu master thrown in). One type of successful short story needs punch but not much characterization or pacing, and he was starting out reasonably well. I gather he didn’t provide the extras in his long-form writing.

By: Suricou Raven

Suricou Raven — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:22:35 +0000

Authors do change over time:

Piers Anthony went from respectable to super-hyper-mega-pervert.
Orson Scot Card has turned into a raving loon.
L.R Hubbard… well, that depends how much of his later works he actually believed in. He was either crazy, or one hell of a con artist.