This actually ties in with the idea of a lengthy post I've been meaning to write, and may still, about how you should react when a writer whose work you admire proves to be, shall we say less than sterling in other ways.
Orson Scott Card has always been a favorite writer of mine. His Ender series of stories are some of the best science fiction written I feel, but he recently wrote a column that can be found here that talks of the evils of gay marriage. He claims that the court decisions allowing gay marriage in California and Massachusetts is the end of democracy in America.
Should it matter what a writer believes? I know I will still enjoy his Ender books and a lot of his other work, but I fear there will always be a small part of me that thinks about this now.
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I guess I don't mind when a celebrity has an opinion that might be different than mine. But what does bother me is when they use that celebrity to put those ideas in front of me.
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