Ayn Rand had a crush on one.

Josie Lawrence!

Ya know, there are so many great, TRUE stories of slavery and the escapes from it that would make wonderful movies - fiction is so…fictional.

@avclub-808e22af6c33eea22608f30cef458844:disqus As far as political activism goes, NOM is on par with the KKK - I grew up in Louisiana in the '60s and have KKK members in my family, so I'm not just Godwinning here.

If they can't take it, they shouldn't dish it out.

I liked her all right until I heard her perform at Music Midtown (Atlanta) sometime in the late '90s and she dedicated a song she had written to a friend who had 'been ritually Satanically abused.' And I went OoooooooKaaaaaaay.

Yeah, I have vague memories of watching it at my grandparents' house, and they were not just conservative - they were reactionary.

@avclub-570170146218082d2ca2544d57a48f1e:disqus Marie Osmond got divorced, so apparently not.

Oh hell, I don't care what he THINKS. I care a bit, but just a bit, more about what he SAYS.

Hey, he also spread that 'the housing meltdown was caused by poor [black implied] people getting mortgages' lie around.

@avclub-2a6ac9e5324952e36b40237cf2fcdad8:disqus He's pleading for us to go see his movie, and calling us 'intolerant' if we don't.

Most of his rants turn on the procreation question - he adamantly argues that if you don't have kids, your life is wasted, and if you don't have grandkids, it's a tragedy beyond measure.

Exactly. It's not 'genetic' as in there's a gene that makes you gay, but it is congenital in that the trait is present before birth.

You should watch the original 'live action' version starring Sabu.

Shouldn't death and violence disturb people?

I did read Ender's Shadow, but it just freaking annoyed me. It didn't cast any further light than Ender's Game did, and it kept him from finishing the Alvin Maker series, which I was still eagerly awaiting then.

The truly sad thing is - what I get from his rants (and I've actually read a few of them) is this -

Haven't read Songmaster, have you?

It's not that Card's a homophobe, per se, it's that he has spent years and years and lots of money writing and campaigning against gay rights. He's on the board of NOM, for crying out loud.

Desmond Tutu was the speaker at my best friend's graduation, and when it was over, her husband turned to me and said, 'Quick! Let's run home and see if this is on TV!'