Some of Card's novels seemed to me to be fairly progressive, which made it all the more surprising when I read some of his personal rantings. Which are reactionary and hate-filled. It makes me wonder whether or not some of his best works were actually written by him - or indeed, if he's even read them!
I find it ironic that he goes on and on about how precious his disabled son is, that everyone should respect and accept him just the way he is because "that's the way god made him", and then he can turn around (sometimes in the same essay) and spew bile on other people's "different" sons and daughters who happen to be gay. What happened to "that's the way god made them"? He seems to be oblivious to the fact that once upon a time his child would have been reviled, marginalised, even killed, and that he and his wife would have come under grave suspicion of moral failing for having produced such a child. Just as he is doing to gays and their families today.
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Date: 2008-11-07 03:55 am (UTC)I find it ironic that he goes on and on about how precious his disabled son is, that everyone should respect and accept him just the way he is because "that's the way god made him", and then he can turn around (sometimes in the same essay) and spew bile on other people's "different" sons and daughters who happen to be gay. What happened to "that's the way god made them"? He seems to be oblivious to the fact that once upon a time his child would have been reviled, marginalised, even killed, and that he and his wife would have come under grave suspicion of moral failing for having produced such a child. Just as he is doing to gays and their families today.