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No Need For Trek Anymore
dcsmith writes "In an article at the LA Times, Orson Scott Card says 'So they've gone and killed Star Trek. And it's about time.' SciFi blasphemy? Not really. Card makes several good observations about the growth of SciFi over the past 30+ years. The article also comments on several other genre gems, including Joss Whedon's Firefly." From the article: "...the hungry fans called their friends and they watched it faithfully. They memorized the episodes. I swear I've heard of people who quit their jobs and moved just so they could live in a city that had Star Trek running every day."
He was forced to leave because otherwise they would have had to deal with the corruption issue.
Gay, straight, married, single, don't put you illicit lover on the state payroll, especially for a job that they are LEGALLY unqualified for (didn't have the clearance for the position).
The only one talking about the gay thing was him who wanted to be a martyr while coming out of the closet with his wife standing next to him.
The Governor of New Jersey wasn't ousted for his sexual orientation, but rather for behavior related to his sexual choices.
With respect to the presidents issue, etc.
We have relative equality at this point, but things take time.
To have a non-White, non-Christian male president, you need to have someone who was born in the post-Civil Rights, era, who had "relative" equality their whole life.... or all those people are at a disadvantage. To really have a chance, you need two generations of that, because the most significant indicators for success in life are thing like your intelligence, your education, and your parents education.
Once you clean up the legal system, it takes time to flow throughout society.