Orson Scott Card on gay marriage

[ellen_datlow]

(A hint. He's not for it)
Mormon Times

Thanks to Cheryl Morgan

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I'd known a lot of that, but not all of it - specifically Texas wanting slavery back. Fascinating!

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

The rest of us didn't, I hasten to add: these were a gaggle of idiots who would have been kicked out of a Dragon*Con for being overly obnoxious and dorky, but they felt they had the law on their side. Ultimately, they went to jail, mostly because they were trying to sell Provisional Republic scrip as legal tender. The worst part was that they wanted a Waco-style standoff with the authorities, but if I remember correctly, they finally surrendered without bloodshed. (As the joke goes, they had to leave their trailer in order to get their welfare checks from the post office.)

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Amazing. It sounds like they'd have a bit in common with Card here, who seems to be advocating (violent?) revolution against the US government over gay marriage.

When was this spectacular fiasco involving Provisional Republic script and Dragon*Con rejects? I had thought during Reconstruction, but now I wonder if it wasn't 1977 instead.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Sorry: the Provisional Government's reign was pretty much from 1991 to 1997. Before that, they were a group of goofballs who'd meet in Arlington and issue writs of payment against the US government and the Holy See of the Catholic Church in order to finance the new Republic.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

That's OK!

Against the Catholic Church?! I really, really have got to read up on this. I love weird moments from history, especially if they're recent as this is.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Not quite the same thing, but you might be interested in the "proof" that almost three centuries of European history were forged. Google on "Heribert Illig."

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

That's some high grade woo.

[magistera.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I love the "the Dark Ages didn't happen" people. They're even better than tax protesters.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

A major reason the Mexican-American war was fought was to bring in Texas as a slave state.

I'm currently do work with General Grant's thoughts about that, as he formed them, while serving in that war.

He was agin it -- the invasion of Mexican and slavery and the expansion of slavery, but he served in his line of command.

Love, C.