>At least they didn't give it to Mittens

>Here's the SLJ article asking if Orson Scott Card's beliefs about homosexuality should have been taken into account when YALSA awarded him the Margaret Edwards Award. I dunno if this is a real controversy; has anyone heard it brought up elsewhere?
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Yonmei

>I think I know which famous lesbian singer/songwriter you mean.

If so, literally within months of her marriage and Orson Scott Card's attending her wedding, Card wrote:

But homosexual "marriage" is an act of intolerance. It is an attempt to eliminate any special preference for marriage in society -- to erase the protected status of marriage in the constant balancing act between civilization and individual reproduction.

So if my friends insist on calling what they do "marriage," they are not turning their relationship into what my wife and I have created, because no court has the power to change what their relationship actually is.

Instead they are attempting to strike a death blow against the well-earned protected status of our, and every other, real marriage.

They steal from me what I treasure most, and gain for themselves nothing at all. They won't be married. They'll just be playing dress-up in their parents' clothes.
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So was he being a complete hypocrite when he wrote the above - or is that his honest opinion, and he despises someone who "loves and defends him" that much?

Posted : Jan 29, 2008 01:40


Anonymous

>Mitt Romney was a drag queen??? Oh, I'm so confused ...

Posted : Jan 25, 2008 04:06


Anonymous

>There were plenty of people during Tolstoy's time who found his views on women repellent. These people included his daughters, whose lives were ruined by him. It's acceptable in the general population to view women as less intelligent overall to men. Many women will even admit they never want a female boss if they have the choice. It's just not acceptable to say so among the Ivy League/liberal arts elite. Still there are exceptions: Norman Mailer and Philip Roth aren't exactly considered sympathetic to female readers, yet their books are constantly reviewed in all the major literary reviews. In the end, the skills of the writer almost always overcome whatever personal "demons" or defects that writer has.

Posted : Jan 24, 2008 03:27


Roger Sutton

>It was the drag name of a certain former governor, but I hear he's changed it. Again.

Posted : Jan 23, 2008 03:26


Anonymous

>OK - someone's got to admit to ignorance. What is (or was) MITTENS?

Posted : Jan 23, 2008 02:39


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