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Originally Posted by acidzebra
And the whole point of it is that the "gay" thing in HP was tacked on at a later date, not in the books themselves but at some press conference somewhere
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Exactly. Whether or not Card is personally an opponent of gays has nothing to do with it. He's not making a judgement about Dumbledore being gay, he's saying that Rowling should pick a posiition and stick with it.
If Rowling wanted Dumbledore to be gay, she should have just said so in the books. To have no mention of it whatsoever in the books, and then come out later, after the books have sold, and claim that he was doesn't sit right. Either she was too afraid of the controversy and a potential sales backlash, or else she's just making it up now to get attention. Either way, Card has a good point, and it has nothing to do with his personal feelings towards sexuality.