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[sleigh]

Orson Scott Card on the horror of same-sex marriage.

Almost needless to say, we don't agree. Card's bottom line: same-sex marriage is the end of democracy, and justifies violent overthrow of the government. "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."

Marriage has only one definition, and it is in Card's personal dictionary and nowhere else.

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[casaubon.livejournal.com]

He couches it in terms of a question - "How long before married people answer the dictators thus: ..." which seems to me to be a rhetorical device designed to skirt the "don't tell people to rebel" law.

I'd better add that I don't believe for a minute that he's actually advocating violent revolution. I reckon he's just a bigoted blowhard in love with his own voice and that if anyone handed him a gun and asked him to help destroy the government, he'd run a mile.

Also, locking people up for writing stuff is probably a bad idea. I'd rather have people like him spouting rubbish in an op-ed than printing nasty little samizdats in cellars.