Orson Scott "Mormons In Space" Card says that, if them Liberal activists go too far, the bullets may start to fly:
If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn't require a husband or father, and that homosexuality is as valid a choice as heterosexuality for their future lives, then why in the world should married people continue to accept the authority of such a government?
What these dictator-judges do not seem to understand is that their authority extends only as far as people choose to obey them.
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: 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.
Gawd, its like I'm flashing back to the 1990s, when Conservatives were genuinely scary.
h/t Cathie.
Card wrote a few brilliant books
ReplyDelete(Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Pastwatch) then a lot of OK books and went downhill from there.
He hasn't written a decent thing in years and this coincides with his right-wing-nut period ... spouting nonsense on his website.
Sad. But sadder still that his views are typical of so many of our American cousins.
Now, now, Card. You don't want some American government issuing another extermination order against the Mormons, do you?
ReplyDeleteInteresting Canadian link for Card. He is a descendent of the man who led Mormon colonists to Cardston.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fascinating fact, Buckets.
ReplyDeleteTravel Alberta should start promoting Cardston as an attraction for adventure tourists: "Ward and June Cleaver welcome you to our very own Canadian version of Mayfield."
Ever since I found out recently that a disproportionate number of personnel in the CIA are Mormon, I've become a little more suspicious of that weird, wholesome cult.
You have a twisted sense of what is at the heart of a well-functioning society. Clearly you haven't a clue. But don't let that stop you from having an opinion on it.
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