A special shout-out to ConservativeHQ for coming to the defense of Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, who has come under fire for his pro-marriage views:
Orson Scott Card, a talented science fiction writer, is part of a team of writers and artists assembled by DC Comics to create an “Adventures of Superman” comic series ahead of the release of the summer Superman film Man of Steel.* Card is also a believer in the Biblical definition of marriage who has the courage to say so.
Orson Scott Card’s views, such as “the left is at war with the family,” and opposition to same sex marriage are reflective of his Christian faith and hardly “out of the mainstream,” but they have now earned him and DC comics a call from homosexual activists for a boycott.
National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown told Fox News he was simply stunned that homosexual activists are trying to destroy a man’s career.
“This is completely un-American and it needs to be stopped,” Brown said. “Simply because we stand up for traditional marriage, some people feel like it is okay to target us for intimidation and punishment.”
Brown called the attacks on Card frightening and said it’s another example of radical homosexual activists trying to punish those who believe marriage should be a union between a man and woman.
“Marriage is the union of a man and a woman,” Brown said. “That is not hateful. That is not bigoted.”
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I love Brian's quotes here - all from the man who started the DumpStarbucks campaign. Could he be any more hypocritical?
Interesting point Bobby. I guess we're talking about the difference between a Corporation and a single person. Starbucks would survive a boycott from us. Orson Scott Card's career affects him personally and affects his ability to support himself and his family.
Good for Mr. Card! I support his views and wish him well. One day the gay community will get what they deserve.
Bobby, there's a huge difference in boycotting an institution because of what the institution supports, and boycotting an institution because of what an INDIVIDUAL supports.
Businesses and individuals are completely different entities. Please learn these crucial facts.
We will be placing our order for this DC offering soon.
Bobby's post is yet another example of the inability of marriage corruption supporters to recognize that which differentiates one action from another.
Bobby, I have no problem if the homosexual "marriage" supporters want to boycott DC comics or anything else, that is their right. I do have a problem when they try to get someone fired for their personal views. The dump Starbucks campaign was a boycott of Starbucks. Nobody was asking that the CEO of Starbucks be fired for his views on homosexuality. That is the difference. I haven't read a comic book since I was a kid but I'm going to buy a Superman comic.
I may have read a short story by Mr Card but I have yet to buy one of his books.
I will do so in the next couple of days.
Liz - I agree with you. One day the gay community will get full marriage equality. But this will be a victory for all - heterosexuals as well as homosexuals.
Bobby, the male-female dynamic rules the natural world, despite rare aberrations, and it rules the human world as well, despite rare aberrations. There is no way homosexuality is "equal" to that.
Homosexuals will not rest until acceptance their aberrant lifestyle is forced upon every facet of American life.
Homosexuality is sin.
Homosexuality is perversion.
Homosexuals must be resisted.
"Homosexuals will not rest until acceptance their aberrant lifestyle is forced upon every facet of American life."
Actually LonesomeRhoades, the goal is even more sinister. That what can only be called moral rubble left-over from the "anything goes" Sixties is pushing for a society in which homosexuals are allowed to ask any one, anywhere at any time to go to bed with them, even your own children as young as six, and those asked will have no right to refuse. I've seen some of the scribblings to come out of that s0-called "community. RESIST indeed.
Looking at comments #'s 10 & 11 is it any wonder why NOM may be seen as a hate group by some.
“Simply because we stand up for traditional marriage, some people feel like it is okay to target us for intimidation and punishment.” Says the man behind the Dump Startbucks campaign. Oh, the irony,
@Bobby... Why are you here? You're not fighting against human prejudice, you're fighting against the Word of God. Sexual behavior is not like skin color.
@Bobby
"is it any wonder why NOM may be seen as a hate group by some."
So because their comments slip through moderation then NOM automatically agrees with it? Oh boy bobby, no one here is special. And just because NOM doesn't respond to them doesn't mean they agree with it either.
And instead of griping about other people on a WEBSITE, just focus on getting your point across.
@Mark
Where's the irony?
If you have to lie so many times in an article, doesn't that prove that you don't believe your own conclusions?
Hey Anon, you know the people your organization exists to hurt? They're individuals. And you know nothing about what they believe.
Hard to, since you've treated them all as if they were a group.
Card has met pushback because of who he stands against, not what he stands for.
"I do have a problem when they try to get someone fired for their personal views."
But you don't have a problem with me being fired because I exist. Right.
"Homosexuals will not rest until acceptance their aberrant lifestyle is forced upon every facet of American life."
My lifestyle consists of trying to help people, which is obviously quite different from yours given that you comments in support of an organization that exists for no purpose other than to cause harm.
I daresay I DO want my lifestyle considered to be more acceptable than yours. But I have a funny feeling you were lying when you said this is about my lifestyle at all. Call it a hunch. Or experience with these same lies repeated ad nauseum. One or the other.
@OldKingBlog: You're thinking of rapists. Liberals tend to be more outspoken against them than conservatives, though I'd never suggest rape is a Republican thing (that kind of lie seems more your style, anyway).
@Mantronikk: Blaming God for your behavior does not make it better.
@zack: NOM is well-known for deleting comments it disagrees with. Anybody using facts, logic, or altruism/goodness tends to disappear. And yet, objectively evil comments remain.
So yeah, that DOES say something about NOM, actually.
And why is Bobby not allowed to respond to people because they're on a website? Is this some special characteristic of websites? Why doesn't it apply to you?
So much for focusing on getting one's point across, I s'pose.
@Pat
Your words read that of a self inflicted victim.
@Pat
"NOM is well-known for deleting comments it disagrees with."
Would love evidence of that. I see more people who post dissenting view points about NOM then supporting view points.
"Anybody using facts, logic, or altruism/goodness tends to disappear. And yet, objectively evil comments remain."
What facts? All I read are emotionally charged arguments that hold no water.
"And why is Bobby not allowed to respond to people because they're on a website? Is this some special characteristic of websites? Why doesn't it apply to you?"
I never said he wasn't, but it's childish. The purpose is to get a point across, not complain because someone is getting more responses in than you are. You sound very childish as well.
"So much for focusing on getting one's point across, I s'pose."
As I have said. Your words read that of a self-inflicted victim.
@Pat,
sticking your fingers in your ears, closing your eyes, while screaming "lie" at the top of your lungs will never turn the truth into a lie.
"My lifestyle consists of trying to help people"
Your lifestyle consists of trying to create willing victims who affirm the appropriateness of the crimes perpetrated against them.
Such is the life of your A-typical sociopath; such is the nature of the beast.
@Pat
"Hey Anon, you know the people your organization exists to hurt?"
First of all, I don't have an organization. Secondly, NOM does not "exist to hurt," it exists to protect and preserve. Your personal OPINION of NOMs mission is an incorrect interpretation. Are you so prejudiced and bigoted that you cannot take the time to understand the opponents point of view, to see it for what it actually is, not what your poor little emotions make you see it as?
"They're individuals."
The organization does not promote any harm or discrimination towards individuals. It is against changing the definition of marriage, it is against victimizing children by depriving them of a mother and a father and turning them into a commodity. How is this discrimination of an individual or individuals?
"And you know nothing about what they believe."
This doesn't refer to anything that I posted.
"Hard to, since you've treated them all as if they were a group."
This doesn't refer to anything I posted, either.
When you come back to your senses and choose a proper conduct, where your posts reflect intelligence and rational, not overly-emotional and overly-dramatic ramblings, perhaps we can discuss things more clearly.
Pat: This is telling:
"you know the people your organization exists to hurt? They're individuals. And you know nothing about what they believe."
Poor babies. . .
I've always said their belief is a religion. It's a religion trying to be a favorite of the government, without the necessary majority of opinion, wiggling-in through misrepresentation of the facts. Their arguments are not rational - as their 'marriage' is - it's emotional. That makes it an emotional religion. No wonder we can't reason with them.
I should point out NOM permits comments pro-SSm, and those who submit even ad hominem comments get accepted. Unbeknownst to them, they serve to balance the comment threads
Be patient, NOM has a live moderator, not just a machine. Surely, it is not like other blogs where you can write back and forth about a comment, readily. So, i've developed my workaround.