Guess what? Majority of the public are not crazy-gay-rights advocates but a normal middle-of-the-road Americans. They could care less of what you think.

That's great! It means we (the Americans) won't be blamed due to atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I actually mentioned Bradbury.

Well than let me turn your argument against you. There are many more male homosexuals then female homosexuals. Therefore more females would be left unable to find themselves permanent (don't want to say "mates") partners. That means we can technically engage in polygamy.
And even if we do have population discrepancy (someone has 7 wives), whom to say we can not have polyandry and have a woman take 7 husbands? Everything would than equal out and frankly your argument would be moot.
Who said anything about bestiality or pedophilia? You must be a one sick puppy to even mention them why we can't allow them.

Of course there is infringement of rights. It takes a form of bullying, persecution, public denunciations, baiting, badgering, defamation -- all in a press, on the internet, on TV and radio, being a subject to public campaigns and boycotts.

I should have mentioned them too. But can we also claim Asimov being Russian as well?

I agree he would be in the list.

We, society of the Oceanian province of Airstrip One, MUST punish anyone who does not believe in the same thing that we do, don't you know that? Freedom of Speech is not part of a Groupthink! Who do you think you are, Emmanuel Goldstein?

that's right. I'd never see another Ollie Stone's movie because of that nut-job's parasitic and schizophrenic believes and actions. But I'm not like that. I acknowledge that we all have different opinions and believes.

I know. I think I will never be able to call a gmarried couple "husband and husband" or "wife and wife"... this just goes against my religious believes.

wowowowowow stop.
Noone tried to strip the rights of others.
You wanted a gay marriage? Marriage is a religious concept (civil union is a civil concept). Card point was that some are trying to redefine societal norms and it will destroy meanings behind cornerstone societal institutions. But that's card.
But me personally -- frankly -- I don't want you to have ability to marry your own sex until I have an ability to marry many people of the opposite sex... Really, I want to have seven wives. Where are my rights to do that?

Yeah, I read this nonsence. Basically the author is trying to find an excuse as to why a talented author, a winner of multiple awards for his works would come out against something as nice and progressive as Gay Marriage. So, he went out to destroy his character...... by comparing Ender to... Hitler!

Oy Vey, if this is his entire arguments to call a man an "asshat" -- these people need serious help....

Funny.. I have all Mr. Card's books, and re-read Ender's Game at least once a year, because it is a quality work that deserves to go down in history as one of the classics of American literature. In the future people will forget about Stephen King (the author of toilet-paper level trash), but they will remember Twain, Hemingway, Poe, Fitzgerald, Emerson, Hughes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Poe, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, Bradbury and Card.

Did anyone actually read the essay that Mr. Card wrote with clear and open mind? He is right in many aspects. Simply dismissing him as a "bigot" is rather intellectually dishonest.

The persecution of the dissent is not unique to the gay community (after all, they have been persecuted a lot longer, and now, I guess, after gay marriage is won it is time for "payback").