“Enr’s Game” Author Really, Really Hat Gay People. Stud Really, Really Don’t Want You To Care. – Mother Jon

Contents:

• ORSON STT CARD, ANTI-GAY AUTHOR, RPONDS TO 'ENR'S GAME' BOYTT CAMPAIGN
• 'ENR'S GAME' THOR ANSWERS CRICS: GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE IS 'MOOT'
• “ENR’S GAME” AUTHOR REALLY, REALLY HAT GAY PEOPLE. STUD REALLY, REALLY DON’T WANT YOU TO CARE.

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

Anti-gay thor Orson Stt Card has rpond to plans for a boytt of the big-screen adaptatn of his 1985 novel "Enr's Game, " suggtg that same-sex marriage supporters should show tolerance towards those who once opposed them. Card, a Mormon and Natnal Organizatn for Marriage board member, was dubbed a homophobe as far back as 2000 when he was cricized by Salon for his anti-gay views -- which clud labelg homosexualy a "viant behavr" and sayg "gay rights is a llective ln. 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 behd "Enr's Game" have distanced themselv om Card.

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.

Already rather beleaguered on the subject of diversy, DC ed a public outcry when announced the anti-gay Card would be scriptg a story about the Amerin in, and fally had to put the issue on hold fely. In 2008, Card lamented that he had for so long been labeled a "homophobe" bee of his stated posns on homosexualy.

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

Notably, he's bee far more vol and polilly active the fight agast gay marriage recent years.

1990: Card argued that stat should keep sodomy laws on the books orr to punish unly gays--prumably implyg that the fear of breakg the law ought to keep most gay men the closet where they belonged.

2004: He claimed that most homosexuals are the self-loathg victims of child abe, who beme gay “through a disturbg sctn or rape or moltatn or abe. 2008: In 2008, Card published his most ntroversial anti-gay screed yet,  the Mormon Tim, where he argued that gay marriage "marks the end of mocracy Ameri, " that homosexualy was a "tragic geic mixup, " and that allowg urts to refe marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual polil le and the classifyg of anyone who disagreed as "mentally ill:".

“ENR’S GAME” AUTHOR REALLY, REALLY HAT GAY PEOPLE. STUD REALLY, REALLY DON’T WANT YOU TO CARE.

A term that has mental-health implitns (homophobe) is now routely applied to anyone who viat om the polilly rrect le.