You know...I tried.

I mean, I knew Orson Scott Card and I didn't see eye-to-eye on every little thing, but I thought..."That doesn't mean Ender's Game isn't kickass, still." Just because I don't agree with a guy's political views doesn't mean I can't enjoy his works, right?

Right?

Well, until now.

In a July 24th, 2008 op-ed piece in the Mormon Times OSC has officially announced he has gone so 'round the bend, he's actually coming back from the other side...except crazy and stupid.

[link]

I especially love the paragraph that says:

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Is it just me, or is he saying "If they let the gays marry, we should stage a bloody coup"?

I think I'm done. I may even go so far as to take all my OSC books and junk 'em. Not give them to anyone, not donate them...junk 'em.

Which is something I had previously thought I was actually physically incapable of doing.

I understand that the author is not the story and that the author's wackaloon actions should not affect my enjoyment of their works...but I just don't know that I can ever read OSC again without a foul, slick taste of "What a colossal fucktard asshat" at the back of my throat. I resent any money he ever got from my purchasing his works.

I'm so disappointed.

That's exactly what he's saying.

So as long as the marriage is between male and female - even if it's one man and 32 women (some of them underage girls who didn't want to marry) - it's OK, but if two people of the same sex want to marry it's grounds for a revolution? sigh.

A few years ago he also had the audacity to write, in essence, that gays *can* marry...people of the opposite gender. So what's the problem?

What a fucktard.

Aims has a good idea that I think we'll do. We're going to mail him his books back with a nice note explaining why we can no longer stomach his shit in our house.

Can you send them with insufficient postage, so HE has to pay for them? (I get evil on Mondays)

That was my first thought!

You can also send them back with the covers removed, ala remaindered books that no one gives a shit about.

Even the hardcovers?

If you remove the covers (a la remaindered books), be sure to enclose a copy of this poem: [link]

I can't remember what they do with hardcovers. Probably just remove the dustjackets, but I don't know. I could, however, find out.