I’m pretty sure I’m Orson Scott Card’s mortal enemy. I didn’t strike out to perform this function, but we’re at opposite ends of the sanity pool, as the Mormon sci-fi author’s mind is so knotted and warped by religion-encouraged homophobia that “batshit crazy” barely begins to cover his condition. I may have also referred to him as “Orson Scott Crazy,” but since he has no idea who I am, that is merely incidental. Anyway, I support the government as much as any subversive godless radical (that is, not much, but I’m pragmatic) and support gay marriage (for the rights it gives couples and the opportunity to live their lives the way they see fit more than any heretofore hidden support of an institution that until the 20th Century treated women like chattel). Orson, conversely, will not let either stand, up to and including a presumably bloody overthrow of government to stop The Gay from spreading any further:
The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to “gay marriage,” is that it marks the end of democracy in America. … 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. Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.
I get that he doesn’t agree with what’s happening, and it’s his right as a citizen of both America and the fun-size theocracy of Utah to say what’s on his mind, but really? He really wants to “act to destroy that government and bring it down,” and then replace it with one dictated by religious law? And he doesn’t see the flaw in the “biological imperative” argument, which gives ample support to non-monogamy, among other modes of living that make the bile rise in the back of his throat? I suppose that makes him my mortal enemy. If we’re going to do this whole epic struggle against each other thing, I’ll need to come up with an evil, mildly effete laugh to taunt him with as I explain my evil plan, knowing full well he’ll escape the sharks with lasers and foil me once again.
