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Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy
An anonymous reader writes "A controversy has been brewing in the comic community for the past month. Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and its many sequels, was tapped to write a story for the new Adventures of Superman comic. The controversy arose because Card has become an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, going so far as to say giving it legal recognition could mark 'the end of democracy in America,' and suggesting 'traditional' married people will eventually have to overthrow the government. Many fans of the series objected, and some retailers decided they wouldn't stock the issue Card's story appears in. Now, the illustrator for Card's story, Chris Sprouse, has walked away from the project, saying he wasn't comfortable with the media surrounding the story. Because of that, Card's story is being replaced in the Adventures of Superman anthology. 'The news has inspired speculation about whether or not this could mean that DC will quietly kill off the controversial Card story entirely, with some suggesting that the story remaining un-illustrated gives the publisher an "out" to avoid any potential breach-of-contract legal response.' Personally, I'm not sure what to think about this. I enjoyed Ender's Game as a kid, and it tarnishes the experience a little to know that its authors can say such hateful things. On the other hand, Card seems to have kept his personal views out of his fiction, and it's unlikely DC would let him put those views into a Superman comic even if he wanted to. It's a free country; people are free to believe stupid things. On the third hand, he is actively advocating his views outside his fiction, and what better way is there for readers to fight back than organizing a boycott and voting with their wallets? What do you think, Slashdot?"
Perhaps you'd understand a bit better if he'd had said the same thing about having a "nagger as a president"?
What you've really said is that in your mind gays don't deserve any show of support against DISCRIMINATION BY RABID BIGGOTS.
Funny how Card can go on about the injustice of seing Enders Game constantly being put on banned book lists by "Mormon hating Christian Fundies" but is such an open and vocal biggotry against homosexuals.
Frankly, Card can go fuck himself. Calling for the overthrow of the government to force biggotry on all of us, is just plain fascist.
I think we should imprison this asshole for sedition.
UNtil now I was looking forward to seeing the upcoming Enders Game movie - now the idea makes me feel sick.
I don't want to support the works of a vocal biggot who is calling for waging war on the American Government and people who want an open and free society.
Didn't push his agenda?
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the The National Organization for Marriage--an American non-profit political organization established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. He also wrote an essay titled, "Homosexual Marriage and Civilization," in which he wrote:
The dark secret of homosexual society—the one that dares not speak its name—is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.
"Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!" -- Ivanhoe
Piss off.