'Enr's Game' thor answers crics: Gay marriage issue is 'moot' |

Contents:

• ORSON STT CARD WANTS YOUR 'TOLERANCE' FOR HIS ANTI-GAY VIEWS
• ORSON STT CARD, ANTI-GAY AUTHOR, RPONDS TO 'ENR'S GAME' BOYTT CAMPAIGN
• 'ENR'S GAME' STAR HARRISON FORD RPONDS TO ORSON STT CARD'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS: 'HUMANY HAS WON''ENR'S GAME' STAR HARRISON FORD RPONDS TO ORSON STT CARD'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS: 'HUMANY HAS WON'
• 'ENR'S GAME' THOR ANSWERS CRICS: GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE IS 'MOOT'

ORSON STT CARD WANTS YOUR 'TOLERANCE' FOR HIS ANTI-GAY VIEWS

I may not have agreed wh his personal beliefs -- I knew that he was an observant Mormon and at least somewhat polilly nservative -- but I rpected and still rpect the prciple of not g fictn as a soap box, even if the thor who troduced to me has sce fotten or abandoned tth, of urse, is that Card had been avidly homophobic sce long before I knew him. That at the same time we were talkg about character velopment and the shap of stori, he was railg agast marriage rights for same-sex upl and sistg homosexualy was a byproduct of child abe. Orson Stt Card is monstroly homophobic; he's racist; he advot vlence and lobbi agast fundamental human rights and equat cricism of those stanc wh his own hate speech.

The biggt nemis to a long-anticipated film adaptatn of Orson Stt Card's legendary Enr's Game has been, for many, the thor's almost equally legendary anti-gay activism. This article is om the archive of our partner biggt nemis to a long-anticipated film adaptatn of Orson Stt Card's legendary Enr's Game has been, for many, the thor's almost equally legendary anti-gay activism.

Wh the recent Supreme Court lg, the gay marriage issue be moot.

ORSON STT CARD, ANTI-GAY AUTHOR, RPONDS TO 'ENR'S GAME' BOYTT CAMPAIGN

Now will be tertg to see whether the victor proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed wh them when the issue was still dispute. Even if you five the thor for argug that gay rights as an issue "did not exist" 1984 ( did), and for givg a whistle to the notn that he and other anti-gay activists might be victimized by the Supreme Court's cisn on DOMA, his history on the issue go eper. Orson Stt Card, after all, still wrote a versn of Hamlet which the eponymo character's father was a gay, as a way of explag why he was a terrible kg (Card also ma Hamlet's father to a child molter).

'ENR'S GAME' STAR HARRISON FORD RPONDS TO ORSON STT CARD'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS: 'HUMANY HAS WON''ENR'S GAME' STAR HARRISON FORD RPONDS TO ORSON STT CARD'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS: 'HUMANY HAS WON'

Last time around, Card was cricized for sayg that "there are no laws left standg that discrimate agast gay upl" and suggtg that beg gay is a choice.

"Neverthels, the antigay views of Card, a man who once sat on the board of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, and lled for the crimalizatn of homosexualy, have begun to eclipse any mer his award-wng story may offer to Hollywood's pantheon of science fictn anizatn Geeks OUT lnched s Skip Enr's Game mpaign July, urgg supporters of LGBT equaly to boytt the film when lands theatr on November 1, hop of sendg a msage that moviegoers will not tolerate antigay activism. After all, 's difficult to support a story om which an antigay activist like Card profs. But the effect of one of Card's most celebrated works may actually be to advance the msage of before Card's personal views on homosexualy ma headl, many LGBT fans who read Enr's Game were enamored wh the story.

Not only is the tale a great work of science fictn, but protagonist Enr Wigg's stggl also closely parallel a number of mon experienc had by gay youth. But the parallels between Enr's story and that of gay youth don't end there. In fact, Enr's tale of empowerment works bt when s young protagonist is terpreted as a gay the exceptn of his sister, Valente, Enr shows no affectn toward femal throughout the book.

'ENR'S GAME' THOR ANSWERS CRICS: GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE IS 'MOOT'

"And so for me, is so ironic that the wrer of the work that has helped so many [young] people, gay and straight, to fd empowerment, to feel empowered, to fd their own moral pass -- 's very sad that he, himself, is stgglg wh the issu.

I thk what would be far more helpful is if dienc knew that the makers of this film, and the film self, holds the polar oppose pot of view to the current thkg of Orson Stt Card on gay issu.