Stay classy, Orson
NOM Board Member Pens Homophobic 'Hamlet' Rewrite
A publishing house is getting a lot of attention for a new printing of a homophobic Hamlet rewrite called Hamlet's Father by science fiction author and NOM board member Orson Scott Card.
The Guardian notes:
The book is not a new release, having
been published twice before, for the first time in 2008, but an
explosive review at the Rain Taxi Review of Books has unleashed a wave
of criticism.
William Alexander at Rain Taxi book review writes:
Here's the punch line: Old King Hamlet
was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was
gay, and, ultimately, a demonic and ghostly father of lies who
convinces young Hamlet to exact imaginary revenge on innocent people.
The old king was actually murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting
him as a young boy-along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and
Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay. We learn that Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are now "as fusty and peculiar as an old married
couple. I pity the woman who tries to wed her way into that house."
Hamlet
is damned for all the needless death he inflicts, and Dead Gay Dad will
now do gay things to him for the rest of eternity: "Welcome to Hell, my
beautiful son. At last we'll be together as I always longed for us to
be."
All of this is as horrifying as it is ridiculous. It is not,
however, surprising that Orson Scott Card's primary purpose is to
slander ten percent of the human race. He recently joined the board of
the National Organization for Marriage, an institution which exists
solely to crush gay civil rights wherever they emerge.
Check out a sample of Card's prior writings on gay people here.
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A publishing house is getting a lot of attention for a new printing of a homophobic Hamlet rewrite called Hamlet's Father by science fiction author and NOM board member Orson Scott Card.
The Guardian notes:
The book is not a new release, having
been published twice before, for the first time in 2008, but an
explosive review at the Rain Taxi Review of Books has unleashed a wave
of criticism.
William Alexander at Rain Taxi book review writes:
Here's the punch line: Old King Hamlet
was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was
gay, and, ultimately, a demonic and ghostly father of lies who
convinces young Hamlet to exact imaginary revenge on innocent people.
The old king was actually murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting
him as a young boy-along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and
Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay. We learn that Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are now "as fusty and peculiar as an old married
couple. I pity the woman who tries to wed her way into that house."
Hamlet
is damned for all the needless death he inflicts, and Dead Gay Dad will
now do gay things to him for the rest of eternity: "Welcome to Hell, my
beautiful son. At last we'll be together as I always longed for us to
be."
All of this is as horrifying as it is ridiculous. It is not,
however, surprising that Orson Scott Card's primary purpose is to
slander ten percent of the human race. He recently joined the board of
the National Organization for Marriage, an institution which exists
solely to crush gay civil rights wherever they emerge.
Check out a sample of Card's prior writings on gay people here.
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