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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Until this thread, I never heard of this Card guy. Still, I never let the political leanings of authors influence me as to whether or not I'll read their works. If I did, there'd be very few I'd be able to read.
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That's surprising, since he's pretty big on the SciFi scene, and his books (such as Ender's Game), have been on a ton of best seller lists.
Now, one of the things that are turning people against Orson Scott Card is that his views are leaking into his writing. Of note is how his apparent homophobia is in his version of Hamlet, when he made King Hamlet a pedophile, and he's wanting to damn his son, to molest him in hell. Also, KH's victims have also turned gay due to being molested by KH.
Some have theorized that Card has been changing, due to some health issues. He's suffered some strokes, and some have said that he's deteriorated, and that his dropping mental health effected his outward view. While he's never been a fan of homosexuality, due to his staunch mormon upbringing (his great great grandfather is Brigham Young), he didn't used to be so outwardly hostile towards gays as he has been since the early to mid 2000's.