Thursday, July 31, 2008

Conservative Talks Insurrection!

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.

5 comments:

Northern PoV said...

Card wrote a few brilliant books
(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.

Ti-Guy said...

Now, now, Card. You don't want some American government issuing another extermination order against the Mormons, do you?

buckets said...

Interesting Canadian link for Card. He is a descendent of the man who led Mormon colonists to Cardston.

Ti-Guy said...

That's a fascinating fact, Buckets.

Travel 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.

Auntie Liberal said...

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.