Tuesday, September 02, 2003 | |
Orson Scott Card: “Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.” So, maybe this column didn’t go down so well with him. 5:06:14 PM comment [] |
The Daily Kos says the Edwards campaign should hire me to work on its Web efforts. Thanks for the reference, Kos, but I'm not available. I wonder how easy it is for Edwards to hire people now, at least people who aren't fulltime campaign types in need of a job. It would have been easier a few months ago, I bet. People are attracted to momentum. 4:45:10 PM comment [] |
“Pop quiz: How often is God mentioned in the Constitution of the My newspaper column this week is about our “bracingly secular” Constitution, and the implications of that secularism for questions of church and state, in Alabama with the Ten Commandments and a somewhat similar case in North Carolina. 8:15:11 AM comment [] |
Orson Scott Card responded to my letter about his column in the Rhinoceros Times with a letter of his own. It’s not pretty. I was afraid Card would embarrass himself further, and now he has. I sent my response to his response to the Rhino, which hyped Card’s letter on its front page last week. Here is my latest letter, complete with the epithet the Rhino edits out: Orson Scott Card wrote a column about a I wrote a letter in response saying that when Card blamed In his reply to my letter, Card says, “Never in my writings have I blamed ‘ Never? Let’s take a look at Card’s original article, which was headlined “Intellectual Update.” In it, he mentions “ He refers to the “touchy sensibilities of Card assigns these New Yorkers an active role in assaulting the values of the rest of the country. He ascribes to Neil Simon, his designated representative of New York culture and “hero” of intellectuals, the belief that “what works in New York is what is going to work everywhere, or else,” and adds, “Simon is so provincial that he thinks that however things are done in his home town [New York] is the right way to do them everywhere else.” And it is in For a guy who has “never blamed ‘ At no point in my letter did I “presume to detect anti-Semitism throughout (Card’s) entire oeuvre,” as he claims. I noted his support for Read the whole letter... 8:11:56 AM comment [] |