[talmand]

In danger of causing a "I think you're defending someone I dislike therefore I must dislike you" response, I think it would be good if you explain to the audience how exactly Orson Scott Card is personally oppressing sexual minorities.

Plus explain how my going to see the movie is not good for the numerous people who have worked on this movie who will get paid that may not share in Card's viewpoints.

[theorique]

The Wikipedia entry seems reasonably accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_scott_card#Views_about_h...

[talmand]

If that's to be considered accurate then I don't quite see the homophobe boogey man people are trying to make him out to be. Seems to me he has a constantly changing attitude towards the matter that reflects the same education our society is currently going through.

Yet, reading through the text, I fail to see how Card is personally oppressing sexual minorities.

[theorique]

If you don’t consider OSC to be obviously anti-gay based on the Wikipedia sources, I’m not sure what would convince you.

Yes, he’s not personally driving a pickup truck around Utah with a gang looking to do some gay-bashing. But he obviously cares enough about the issue to write a lot of articles expressing clearly an anti-gay standpoint.

Examples from the Wikipedia article:

"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."

“Card stated that he regarded any government that would attempt to recognize same-sex marriage a "mortal enemy" that he would act to destroy”

[talmand]

I don't believe I've denied the claim that he is against the homosexual lifestyle. That part is quite clear since he openly admits to that.

What I'm referring to is the claim that he is personally oppressing sexual minorities, which I don't see.

As for his wish to destroy a government that would attempt to recognize same-sex marriage, seems he's failing quite spectacularly at that. So how exactly is he this big homophobe boogey man that I must avoid at all costs, including his old books and current movies he has little to do with?

[talmand]

See, isn't this interesting? You provide the very answer I would have liked to see but somehow my reasonable post gets downvotes. Much the response I predicted.