Kirok thought Ender's Game was bad. This guy thinks it's evil!
Quote:http://agaywithwords.tumblr.com/post/64933863405/as-the-marketing-machine-for-th...As the marketing machine for the Ender’s Game movie ramps up (like you, I saw several commercials during some of my favorite shows this week), LGBT advocates such as the group Geeks Out are urging you to Skip Ender’s Game because it the invention of a bigoted anti-LGBT advocate and racist who has used the money he made off the story to spread hate and intolerance.
It wouldn't be worth mentioning had so many people not signed and passed on the petition based on his assessment.
His reasoning:The author of the 1982 book and short story, Orson Scott Card - a practicing Mormon, is opposed to gay marriage on religious grounds and has said so for years.
Orson Scott Card is listed as a producer of the film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/?ref_=nv_sr_1Your ticket dollars would thus go into the pocket of an unrepentant gay-hater "racist" and promoter of "hate speech". (I'm not really sure where the "racist" part comes in.)
Never mind that he cashed his royalty check long ago and Harrison Ford has responded that not a penny of the box office receipts will go to Mr. Card.
Never mind that the cast, crew and contributors include a lot of people who are not racists, gay-haters, or even opponents of gay marriage.
Never mind that the quotes in Salon Magazine which started the backlash against the author over a decade ago were picked phrases and the author's views, while certainly not pro-gay, were short of the hate-speech they have been labeled.
http://www.hatrack.com/misc/Quotes_in_Context.shtml ...Then there's this...
One author, no doubt unfamiliar with Mr. Card, has strangely suggested that there are gay themes in the story and that Ender himself may be gay:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/queer-enders-game_n_3625157.htmlSo Kirok, not only did you waste a dozen bucks being bored by a video-game disguised as a movie, you are now viewed as a racist-Nazi-thug for having shelled out those bucks!
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