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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I love Jasper Fforde and wish I had another vote left to support this one. Great fun!
I'm going to break with protocol here to express my disquiet that we could have on our list a book by Orson Scott Card. I knew nothing about him, but when I looked him up, I find that he apparently speaks out publicly and frequently against homosexuals, calling them deviants and dysfunctional. I don't believe our Club should support such a person.
I hope it doesn't get supported and go to the vote.
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Whatever sort of views he may or may not hold he writes some great books and this is one of them. If you don't want to read it you deprive only yourself. Should we now burn all books by authors who are against homosexuality?
If you feel it is relevant and are at all interested in what Card did and didn't say about homosexuality I had a quick look after seeing your post and came across this quite lengthy article:
Orson Scott Card and Homosexuality
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“Because I took a public position in 2008 opposing any attempt by government to redefine marriage, especially by anti-democratic and unconstitutional means, I have been targeted as a “homophobe” by the Inquisition of Political Correctness. If such a charge were really true, they would have had no trouble finding evidence of it in my life and work. But because the opposite is true — I think no ill of and wish no harm to homosexuals, individually or as a group — they have to manufacture evidence by simply lying about what my fiction contains.
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Even if Card is a complete bigot the fact is that sometimes the worst people produce great things. This should not be a subject for discussion here.