tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079544696428858248.post5826863205529374601..comments2023-10-21T08:12:40.683-07:00Comments on Open Threat: Orson Scott Card is a homophobic bigot.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079544696428858248.post-54508897268754785862008-08-03T14:12:00.000-07:002008-08-03T14:12:00.000-07:00No, I must agree with Mr. Card. It is high time t...No, I must agree with Mr. Card. It is high time that we stop with these modern redefinitions of marriage and embrace the more traditional form: a contract of ownership over a woman between one man and one or more women's fathers. (end snark)<BR/><BR/>I also love all the arguments that if we permit same sex marriage the human race will shortly vanish. After all, these people will have more kids if we don't let them get married, right?The Brutal Gourmethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757709920291579862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079544696428858248.post-30367354831490947082008-08-02T11:52:00.000-07:002008-08-02T11:52:00.000-07:00This isn't really fair--you didn't tie one hand be...This isn't really fair--you didn't tie one hand behind your back.James Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18431950784819780004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079544696428858248.post-33067545195130072742008-07-31T13:26:00.000-07:002008-07-31T13:26:00.000-07:00... but there are also a minority in every species...<I><BR/>... but there are also a minority in every species who favor their own sex.<BR/></I><BR/>There are a few primate species - notably bonobos (one of two extant species most closely related to homo sapiens sapiens) and Japanese macaques - in which most individuals engage in homosexual activities with greater desire, frequency and duration than they do heterosexual activity. (Obviously, they don't do this to the exclusion of reproduction; both species have been around for millions of years.) This is important because nearly every time a homophobe attempts to drag evolution or other the behavior of other animals into their arguments against decent treatment of homosexuals, they try to support their position in part by implying that homosexuality necessarily results in non-reproduction. And that's a baseless argument; sexual behavior is not all-or-nothing, it is not perfectly straight or perfectly gay.<BR><BR/>By the way - in my experience, being raised Mormon, and living most of my life along Utah's Wasatch front, around plenty of Mormons - many Mormons (possibly a majority), especially those of Card's generation and younger, and especially college-educated Mormons, do believe in a sort of guided evolution - 'evolution is just the way god did it'. Card's fiction - at least the 10 or so books of it I read before I became incensed at his horrible politics in the early 1990s - indicated to me that at the time he wrote that fiction, he believed in 'god-guided evolution'. That's a wrong-headed view, but it's not nearly as wrong as outright rejection of evolution.llewellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001213921499191213noreply@blogger.com