Orson Scott Card Wants Your 'Tolerance' for His Anti-Gay Views

[baldguy]

The biggest nemesis to a long-anticipated film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's legendary Ender's Game has been, for many, the author's almost equally legendary anti-gay activism. His outspoken stance against marriage equality has already prompted a call for a boycott of the film, and now the otherwise promotionally sidelined Orson Scott Card has released a statement addressing the controversy. Spoiler alert: he wants you to ignore his politics.

Here's the statement, released to Entertainment Weekly:

Ender’s Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984.

With the recent Supreme Court ruling, the gay marriage issue becomes moot. The Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution will, sooner or later, give legal force in every state to any marriage contract recognized by any other state.

Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.

Orson Scott Card

Of course, this isn't the only recent controversy where the author's work and his beliefs have crossed. Earlier this year, DC Comics tapped Card to write an Adventures of Superman comic. The outcry against his involvement was so strong that the artist assigned to draw the book quit. The project, written but not drawn, is now apparently shelved. Notably, Card probably won't be making an appearance at this year's Comic-Con, even though Summit is bringing the Ender's Game film to the convention in a big way.

While the statement is a clear attempt to distance the film from the beliefs of its creator, out of the mouth of the creator himself, it's not clear whether it will be enough. Even if you forgive the author for arguing that gay rights as an issue "did not exist" in 1984 (it did), and for giving a whistle to the notion that he and other anti-gay activists might be victimized by the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA, his history on the issue goes deeper. Orson Scott Card, after all, still wrote a version of Hamlet in which the eponymous character's father was a gay, as a way of explaining why he was a terrible king (Card also made Hamlet's father into a child molester). And he still sat on the board of the National Organization for Marriage.

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Sorry, asshat. It just doesn't work that way.

[closeupready]

1. Not interested in his hateful bullshit or his crappy film.

Done with him, about 10 years ago.

[MrScorpio]

2. It doesn't work that way, Orson

Being tolerant doesn't mean that you tolerate intolerance.

[friendlyFRIEND]

6. gray area Scorpio

Everyone is allowed an opinion. I believe that everyone has a right to love and be married and be recognized by the government as such.

However... if someone's faith leads them to believe something else, thats their business. I respect the view of anti-Marriage Equality folks. I disagree with them. But I'm not going to tell them they're wrong and I expect that no one will tell me I'm wrong.

So... tolerating intolerance.

I think it's necessary. Live and let live. And that goes both ways, I don't want a bible thumper lecturing to me either.

Having said that... it is everyone's right to boycott the guys movie. Just like it's 100% ok for Gun owners/afficianados to boycott a Jim Carrey movie.

[MrScorpio]

8. The people who don't want to live and let live would be first in line...

To have the live and let livers for lunch.

Preferably with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

[friendlyFRIEND]

10. lol... nt

[quinnox]

12. I think that is a good point

People can't be forced to adopt beliefs or political opinions on things.

[friendlyFRIEND]

13. of course.

I saw a guy here on DU ridiculing people in a thread for believeing in ghosts.

wtf?

If they want to believe in ghosts, how does it affect you? As long as no one forces me to buy Ghost Insurance or watch Ghost Documentaries I couldn't give a rats ass.

And how about the people who drool and talk about the Bible as a fictional book and all those Atheist slurs delivered to Christians?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Atheists who bash believers are JUST AS BAD as the true-believer nutjobs with signs that scream at people in public. Just as bad...

I admire ANYONE who has FAITH in ANYTHING.

[randome]

3. No.

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[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. Fuck off, Card.

Just Fuck. Off.

[quinnox]

5. I will be going to see this movie, it is one of my anticipated summer movies

I really don't care about the politics behind the author.

[kestrel91316]

7. Typical true-believing Mormon.

[ismnotwasm]

9. Fuck you Orson

And yes your fucked up opinions affect my book-buying and movie going habits--as in NOT ever buying anything of yours. You're not that great anyway, so it's not like I'm missing out. Fucking hack

[rurallib]

11. interpretted he says:

I can shit all over you but now that the public is heading your way, please treat me nice. Oh and apparently I still hate you all.