The batshittery is strong with this one

[lyore]

Orson Scott Card is at it again.

Most of it is just the usual all-women-should-be-barefoot-and-pregnant-TEH-GAY-is-destroying-life-as-we-know-it-Jim bullshit, but there are a few gems that are just too batshit to ignore.

Because when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary. ... 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.

Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.

Um...

I'm really, really glad I never bought any of his books. I'd hate to think I financed this crazy in any way.

Comments

[sunnyskywalker]

If the majority of America decided to vote him into the Mariana Trench, would he go along with that or suddenly remember that the US government is also supposed to protect individuals and minorities even if the majority doesn't want them to? This is why those laws against interracial marriage got struck down. The majority didn't vote for that.

And the sheer ridiculousness of him claiming that marriage has always been a certain way is just... dude, WTF? I'm pretty sure your own church thought differently not that long ago, and I know you know enough history to know even more examples... What kind of twisted mind thinks that outright lying to people who know you're lying will do anything useful? If I had a little more optimism, I'd say it sounds like he's secretly trying to discredit the anti-gay arguments from within through sheer idiocy.

I did enjoy reading some of the commentary over at Femist SF: The Blog!, though. They did a good analysis of some of his earlier rants a while back.

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I mean, dude, at least get the history of your own church right. You'll still be batshit, but at least you'll be accurate.

That commentary was brilliant.