"Gay marriage advocates are trying to build up a boycott of
Ender’s Game because of Orson Scott Card’s personal views on marriage. It seems very strange to me that so many artists and people on the left are supporting the idea that to make art in the mainstream you have to have the right political opinions. This used to be considered the heart of McCarthyism: loyalty oaths for filmmakers as the condition forworking in the film industry. (These were imposed by the industry, not the government, remember, in response to public pressure). I suspect this boycott will be a failure, like the boycott of Card’s video game and like the Chick-fil-A boycott, because most of the public is more concerned with questions such as whether those waffle fries are banging or not." -
Maggie Gallagher, writing for the
National Review.
RELATED: Visit the
New Civil Rights Movement for a list of the
dozens of companies that right wing groups have called for boycotting over their support for same-sex marriage.
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