Probably not, right? But I don’t know. One would like to think that for someone to lack the sense to see that same-sex marriage is every bit as beautiful and touching as any other marriage, they’d also lack the smarts to write really good fiction. That doesn’t seem to be the case here and thus many paradigmatic heads have exploded as a result.
There have been protests and boycotts (did you know Orson Scott Card is an anagram for Boycott This Person Hard?) which I get; you don’t want someone to be celebrated absolutely without pointing out that they have some really problematic views, even if they might be softening on them. Call the guy a douche for making the tired comparison of President Obama to Hitler, by all means. I just think it takes a closer examination of the work in question, Ender’s Game in this case, to advocate boycotting a movie just because the person making it happens to have kooky ideas or belong to a religion you don’t like.
Because you guys: Tom Cruise. See my point? Great, moving on.
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