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For those of you who enjoy Sci Fi and Fantasy, one of the more prominent names in the field is Orson Scott Card.\u00a0 His novel Ender\u2019s Game<\/em> is a classic and he has written a boatload of other tales.\u00a0 He has managed to do something rare: carve out a living as a writer.\u00a0 This is, as guys like John C. Wright of Mike Flynn will tell you, no mean feat since both John and Mike have other sources of income beyond the scifi fantasy gigs.\u00a0 Writing is hard, time-intensive work and writers are particularly vulnerable when pressure groups\u00a0 and brownshirts organize pogroms and 15 Minute Hates against them.<\/p>\n

Card is currently the object of a pogrom from the Gay Legion of Menacing Visigoths for Tolerance.\u00a0 It turns out\u00a0 he\u2019s Mormon and really believes the Mormon teaching that homosexual acts are sinful.\u00a0 For this thoughtcrime the GLMVT activists promoted an online petition demanding his firing from an upcoming Superman comic anthology. DC Comics,\u00a0to their shame,\u00a0confirmed that Card\u2019s portion of the project has been shelved indefinitely.\u00a0 Mind you, Card was not going to be telling some story dealing with gay themes or talking about his views on the matter.\u00a0 He was fired simply and solely because of his thoughtcrime of believing homosex to be immoral.<\/p>\n

I think smashing somebody\u2019s livelihood for the thoughtcrime of disapproving of homosex is\u2013while extremely typical of the behavior of an awful lot of the gay community and very popular with our Manufacturers of Culture\u2013still wrong and should be opposed.\u00a0 \u201cFirst they came for the Mormons\u201d and all that.<\/p>\n

So: if you care about not living in a country that does not inflict draconian penalties on people for regarding homosex as a sin, please consider\u00a0\u00a0signing this petition asking DC comics not to go along with the brownshirt blacklist:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/we-support-orson-scott-cards-superman-comic\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and here is a link to Orson Scott Card\u2019s books on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 Buy some.\u00a0 Resist!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"