Novelist Anne Rice endorses Hillary Clinton (with a caveat)

Novelist Anne Rice endorses Hillary Clinton with a caveat


By Stone Martindale

Anne Rice's early fiction was Vampiric in subject, with her characters' sexuality described as fluid, often displaying homoerotic feelings towards each other.

Rice once said that the bisexuality was what she was looking for in her characters; a love beyond gender especially with the Vampire Chronicles because the vampires were not of human society, therefore did not go by the expectations of that society. Now she has eschewed her neck biting lustful epics for a return to Catholicism, and has sworn off any futher Vampire chronicles.

She also wants you to vote for Hillary Clinton too.

In 1998, Rice returned to her Roman Catholic faith, which she had not practiced since she was 18. In October 2005, as she reaffirmed her Catholic faith, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would "write only for the Lord." She called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, her first novel in this vein.

In an interview with Christianity Today, headlined "Interview with a Penitent", Rice declared that she will never again write another vampire novel, saying; "I would never go back, not even if they say, 'You will be financially ruined; you've got to write another vampire book.'" Rice has posted on her official website that Americans only have two parties, "one which is purely Christian."

"I believe in voting, I believe in voting for one of the two major parties, and I believe my vote must reflect my Christian beliefs. Bearing all this in mind, I want to say quietly that as of this date, I am a Democrat, and that I support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States."

Rice further explained her positions and cited the Democrats are in line with Christian beliefs, and has lashed out against abortion too.

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Sad fucking indictment if that's how you judge character. Too bad, since her books were cool.

And IMO, her first coupla books were a decent read but without an editor she later became mind-numbingly verbose.

to the point where now I just think she's a kook.

I'm pretty sure that's a mutually exclusive impossibilty, isn't it?

Who knows?

I guess this means no more erotica like her The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty series, though.

er... right?

skipped a couple of hundred pages and didn't have a problem. Creepy, stupid ending, too.

nt

n/t

:P

Don't forget that.

Of course, I doubt she will. That might hurt her "viability" for 2012.

Anyway, everyone knows Cheney will get the vampire vote.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

"That's all we need: Vampires For Hillary Clinton."

that's hysterical!

The Democratic Party is in accord with Christianity. For the little guy. For the poor, the hungry. Tolerant. Loving. Peaceful. What's to argue? What's to mock? Amazing how even these simple truths get shat on here.

And think it needs to be emphasized among the "Values voters" (yes, we all have "values," but I'm using the MSM shorthand...) this fall...

is plenty to argue.

But her decision to support the Democratic party should clearly tell you that she isn't trying to legislate that opinion. Sheesh. What the hell do some of you want? For people to have to pass a purity test before voting Dem? Great way to win an election.

I answered. Aside from being a kook... she is entitled to her opinions but when her opinion is to take human rights away from half the nation mine is to call her on it. I'm a real nice gal. I politely keep my lips zipped while people try to blow their religious beliefs up my rear. Their fantasy. None of my business.

But controlling other women's bodies is another story, not progressive, and one I have zero tolerance for.

Assigning them as part of a political party or a religion's creed just cheapens them, because by definition religions/political parties are in direct competition with each other. How can a religion be about tolerance when it encourages members to murder non-believers? When a religion excludes a portion of the community based on a single lifestyle preference? How can a political party be about tolerance when it forces people to work for welfare? Or when it denies it entirely to people who need it?

No, freedom, liberty and all that good stuff are inalienable human rights that NO ONE has the right to challenge. Politics and religion do both though, frequently.

Apparently, they've been touting her re-dedication to christianity as some sort of win for their cause. They think they "saved" her soul. It will be fun to see how they take this news.

to the voting impulse.

I think Ms. Rice is a genuine writing talent. Not predictably drawn to the vampire genre, I nevertheless know a strong writer when one comes along, and Rice is one such. I thought INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE was refreshing in and of itself. Find me a writer with better sense-of-place chops on New Orleans if you can. You'll find a handful just as good, but IMO, nobody better. That's her home turf and she wisely chose to have a vampire or two haunt those circuitous streets as dank fog wafts from the river... just beautiful stuff.

Her religion, I figure, is her business. My guess is you could get a lot further talking about faith wih Anne Rice than you could with Jim Dobson, and I respect her decision. In later phases of their careers, some artists do appear to swerve into the mystic. Not unheard of, and it doesn't eclipse Rice's talent.

Anne Rice gets to vote however she wants. We'll take all the blue votes we can get from desecrated New Orleans, for example. I'd prefer that everybody support exactly the candidates I select, but in the off-chance they choose to vote how they want to on their own, I'll still take the blue vote over the red vote.

:rofl: