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Originally Posted by carld
I disagree. I had no idea Orson Scott Card was a raging homophobe based on his fiction. He masks his true beliefs very effectively.
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He manages not to showcase the homophobia by the simple expedient of not having any bisexual or homosexual characters. However, the sex-negativity and belief that individual desires and passions are best subsumed into a larger family context (even when "the family" becomes "the military"), and that individuals without that context are dangerous and bad, shine through all of his works.
Not every ideological twist or application will be visible in an author's works, but any book so formulaic or abstract as to avoid all connection with the author's sense of self isn't worth reading.