To those of you who've ever wanted me to read anything by Orson Scott Card...I have, and I am so utterly disgusted that I can't even think straight. Ha-ha, that's kind of a pun actually.
I saw this link on
the_drifter's LJ and I figured I'd read it.
Homosexual "Marriage" and CivilizationAfter this, I can pretty much guarantee I won't be reading anything else
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Only when the father became powerless or absent in the lives of huge numbers of children did we start to realize some of the things people need a father for: laying the groundwork for a sense of moral judgment; praise that is believed so that it can instill genuine self-confidence.
So children can only learn moral judgement or believe praise from a man? What a crock of bullshit. Also, with how much he was going on about reproducing I figured he'd think straight people without kids were as evil as gays and lesbians. Then I read this bit:
All heterosexual marriages, with or without children, present normalizing role models that affirm the institution of marriage; childless people can still function as effective surrogate parents in society at large, encouraging children to remain within the cycle of life. It is absurd to claim that homosexual "marriages" are in any way parallel to childless marriages in ( ... )
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What a horrible claim. Human beings have so far surpassed the basic need to pass on genes. It's what makes us human for crying out loud.
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Ender's Game will always be one of my favorite books, no matter what I think of the author, though. But there also isn't marriage in the book, just kids in a military acadamy in space.
I shall read it in the morn. Right now, I wouldn't digest it.
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For an solid analogy to hold with Michael Jackson, Jackson would have to have sung about his various vices as if they were virtues.
Of course, unless Jackson had expressed such thoughts very simply and explicitly, there would be some people who just wouldn't recognize them as such. One would hope though, that as the vices themselves were exposed, some of those people would see what others had got all along.
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