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Note if you do choose to pick it up: The author of Ender's Game is highly homophobic, to the point of helping funding the anti-gay-marriage side during the gay marriage rights battle in 2008.

On the other hand, it's an excellent book, and I recommend reading it.

I'm not telling you what to do, but personally I make it a point to get books like that used, if not borrowed.




Not defending him one way or the other, but even Obama was against gay marriage in 2008 [1].

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/may/11/barack-oba...


Yeah, I replied that in sister thread. Part of why I haven’t read it is because I think Orson Scott Card is a douche.


I mean, he's a direct decendant of Brigham Young. Not exactly surprising.


> he's a direct decendant of Brigham Young.

So you believe in 'bad blood' then? Genetic evil? Or just in the sins of the fathers following their children?

Cool. What other scientific beliefs do you have?




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