with your sentiment.

of work.

I love science fiction but you couldn't pay me to read this bigoted idiot's work. What an unimaginable bastard he is.

Zeus, you by chance got a lightening bolt handy?

And no matter how entertaining the stories might be, I will never be able to enjoy them in the same way anymore. My only consolation in not being able to go see the movie made from one of my favorite books as a protest of the author's bigotry is; if the movie was made by Hollywood, it will suck.

Greatly appreciated.

When I found out how much of a jerk he was, it was a big let down. Before that, I had actually enjoyed the Alvin Maker series. I haven't bought another one of his books since I found out what kind of hateful views he has.

On all accounts. I hadn't known that he was such a rotten person when I first read one of his books...Now, I do, and am disgusted. I don't go to see movies in theaters anyway, but I'll definitely be avoiding this guy and his work from now on. So revolting. Depressing too.

I hope that movie bombs at the box office. That is all.

wipes his ass with kittens.

And thanks for the laugh. I needed that.

It's like Cypher said in the matrix that he wished he never took the red pill because ignorance is bliss. Enders game was one of my childhood favorite books now I won't see the movie. Boo

homophobe and before I found out he supported the Iraq war and still does.

I wish I could take all of the money back that I spent on those books.

but his books suck, too.

-Laelth

of his rancid views

kitty litter.

I am LGBT, and am an extremely happy, positive human being, I would not want to be straight for anything in the world, and Card will never even one time in his life be as happy as I am in my very worst moments.

I know this because the ugly, irrational hate he carries inside him can only mean that he is one of the most miserable human beings on the planet. He lives in a deep, dark personal hell, and I can only pity him in his horrible existence.

is spot on. I like an analogy I was told is Buddhist in origin: Hating someone is like drinking poison, and waiting for the other person to die.

... but only if it's really really good.

Anything by Evelyn Waugh, for example.

OTOH, Ayn Rand simply cannot write novels worth a damn. That has nothing to do one way or the other with her screwball philosophy.

I find Orson Scott Card somewhere in between.

I liked Ender's Game as a teenager, but it's just mediocre sort of OK science fiction.

Bigots like this are a scourge.

You know, I can kinda understand part of these people's position:

"Marriage" is for people who want to raise children, and people who are raising children maybe should get a little help from the rest of society. I can dig that. My wife and I don't have kids and I don't mind maybe paying a little more in taxes so that people who are raising kids can have it a little easier. After all, "it takes a village" and all that.

However... I know three homosexual couples who are raising children together.
Hey Orson - do they not deserve the same benefits of the village simply because you think what they do in bed together is yucky? Because that's what it comes down to, Orson. You think they are yucky.

JUST FUCKING ADMIT IT, ORSON!!!
You think double-penis sex is yucky, and you will use whatever convoluted "logic" you need to in order to justify that...

Double penis sex is yucky. Beautiful, simply beautiful.


If you send it Gohmert would wear it.

he knows nothing

longer read one of his books, I've been making sure that everyone I know (most of my friends love SciFi as well) know what a horrible, bigoted jerk he is!!

Normally I donate books I have read to a charity for resale, but not his.

I read a couple of his books a long time ago, but then I heard about his radical Mormon beliefs and that ruined it for me. Hope he goes broke.

Hey Orson, I'm straight but not "normal." I don't feel the lack. If everyone else is disturbing your perfect little fantasy driven world...get some blinders or earplugs or get used it it!

I know Mormons who don't give a DAMN about gays getting married.

I don't think I've ever read anything so hateful. Ye gods.

The only thing I can say is he can watch his whole distorted twisted version of the world crumble around his shoulders. He can stew in his own caustic bile. He can go to hell.

on who this fucker is. I will be avoiding anything and everything attached to him. Sad day for his new movie. I hope he chokes on a Chik-Fil-A "sandwich".

Get married in the traditional sense and then end up miserable and divorced? This guy had better check the divorce rate in this country before he spews ignorance like this.

cause I cuold use a huge raise and stuff. Or doughnuts.

the name of the aliens bent on destroying humanity in his book. I. Kid. You. Not.

And, oh yeah, fuck you Card. Not a chance in hell I'd give you a cent via book or ticket sales.

read his books, see his films, etc. No matter HOW good they may be.

When I learned just how much of a right wing homophobic asshole he was, I quit buying his books. I'll never buy another one of his books as long as he keeps up with this shit. He is going to have to completely change his attitude if he wasn't this GayTM to open back up.

He's 51, that's a long time being a bigot.

Born: August 24, 1951 (age 62)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card

you know, karma can suck, but as Republicans and the Tali-born-agains are discovering, hating on gay people is for losers.

Including many here on DU that put money in this asshole's pocket.

And if he's not careful, he'll only be remembered for being a bigoted asshole.

I will be making up the rest of the Alvin Maker series myself. I sure wish I had known he was a homophobe before I bought any of his books at all. I only got a three books in one version and the one paperback after that, but since finding out he is a raging homophobe, I will NOT be buying any more of his books. And I won't be watching Ender's Game either. Fuck him.

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What a jerk.