Shout out to james_nicoll

[ksmith]

Since you're the official OSC linky guy, I wondered if you had seen this?

People for the American Way has discovered that in a long rambling article about the ills of gay marriage, reeking of conspiracy theories, Orson Scott Card, a Mormon leader of the religious right's top anti-gay marriage organization, National Organization for Marriage, advocated the criminalization of homosexuality, labeled the US government "our mortal enemy," talked about the "insane Constitution" dying, and then appeared to advocate the overthrow of the US government "by whatever means is made possible or necessary." The article was published in the influential Mormon Times, a publication owned by the Mormon church.

My LJ reading has been hit or miss for the last week or so, so this may be old news. It really is somewhat alarming.

Comments

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

I'd heard tell the man was a bit ... loopy, but nothing like this. o.O

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Do you read james_nicoll's blog? When he wants to drive some folks nuts, he posts a link to OSC's latest because people can't stay away.

[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

The man is more than a bit nuts. I was at a convention with him one time, on a panel about disability in SF, and he stated that he preferred people who recoiled from his disabled son (since deceased) in Utah to those who were "fake friendly" (his term) like people in Carolina where he then lived, because it was "natural" to be repelled by disability. That efforts to integrate the disabled were wrong-headed PCness and "normal" people should not be forced to associate with those who "naturally" disgusted them. I was horrified.

Then he got off onto a ranting rage when I disagreed with him about something--was seriously rude to me and others on the panel--the moderator was clearly terrified to take charge and everyone in the room was leaning back looking scared. One of my best friends (who is LDS) was as shocked as I was. (He was out of control--or apparently so--enough that my military background brought me to full alert, as it did the other military officer sitting beside me.

Later that same convention, at a store signing, he threw a tantrum that delayed the signing some half hour because he *misunderstood* what someone said. And then he turned off the tantrum in an instant when he'd made the store staff bow and scrape enough to satisfy him, and was sticky-gooey-sweet for the next hour.

In that 24 hours, I lost all respect for the man, and now consider him dangerous--whether he's sociopathic, narcissistic, or has an explosive personality disorder, I don't know and don't care but I will never be in an enclosed space with him again. Clearly he thinks he's absolutely right and everyone who disagrees is absolutely wrong and should be pounded until they submit.