So I was reading on Newsarama that Orson Scott Card will be writing a six-issue Ultimate Iron Man mini-series. This is cool, because I’m always for established authors doing work in the field of comics and making great work.

Then, one of the people on the discussion thread posted a link to this article Card wrote about gay marriage. Specifically, why it’s wrong and bad an evil and how it’s part of the downfally of civilization.

It includes such gems as:

“In the first place, no law in any state in the United States now or ever has forbidden homosexuals to marry. The law has never asked that a man prove his heterosexuality in order to marry a woman, or a woman hers in order to marry a man.

Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law. And, in fact, many homosexual men have done precisely that, without any legal prejudice at all.

Ditto with lesbian women. Many have married men and borne children. And while a fair number of such marriages in recent years have ended in divorce, there are many that have not.

So it is a flat lie to say that homosexuals are deprived of any civil right pertaining to marriage. To get those civil rights, all homosexuals have to do is find someone of the opposite sex willing to join them in marriage.

In order to claim that they are deprived, you have to change the meaning of “marriage” to include a relationship that it has never included before this generation, anywhere on earth.

Just because homosexual partners wish to be called “married” and wish to force everyone else around them to regard them as “married,” does not mean that their Humpty-Dumpty-ish wish should be granted at the expense of the common language, democratic process, and the facts of human social organization.

However emotionally bonded a pair of homosexual lovers may feel themselves to be, what they are doing is not marriage. Nor does society benefit in any way from treating it as if it were.”

It frustrates me, because while Card is a good writer, I’ve for quite some times that his politics are shit. It’s always sad when someone who you think of as an idol or someone who’s work you look up to turns out to be someone who’s veiws you find a complete anethma. With writers it’s doubly hard because so often our personal beliefs bleed into what we’re writing. I mean, I kind of find it hard to believe that Mr. Right-Wing Mormon is going to be able to write a version of Iron Man that’s been consistently portrayed as a liberal, martini guzzling, supermodel screwing, billionaire playboy. Sure, the man is a great writer, but still…

Other than that, things are going well. I had a great weekend, Kenzie bought me Buffy season 3 for Christmas and we watched that, and most things are looking up. Well, someone egged my car. Just mine in among a whole bunch of other cars that are parked on my street, so it’s clear that it’s personally motivated. Does it bug me? Hell yes it does, but there’s not much I can do about. People that egg cars, or get thier friends to egg cars, or suport car egging, or are pro-car egging and anti-family, or what the fuck ever, are just fucked up. There’s not much else to say but that. Ooooh, you egged my car, that’s really showed me. Now I know better.

Speechless, in a bathrobe, almost late for work, I remain…