Orson Scott Card ruins Hamlet on behalf of NOM
From a review of ‘Hamlet’s Father,” a political distortion of the story of Hamlet, by Orson Scott Card.
William Alexander:
Here’s the punch line: Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately, a demonic and ghostly father of lies who convinces young Hamlet to exact imaginary revenge on innocent people. The old king was actually murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy—along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay.
Even the cover has bad typography. That’s a foot mark, not an apostrophe.
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Southern Poverty Law Center, on the National Organization for Marriage:
National Organization for Marriage
Princeton, N.J.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which is dedicated to fighting same-sex marriage in state legislatures, was organized in 2007 by conservative syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher and Princeton University politics professor Robert George. George is an influential Christian thinker who co-authored the 2009 ‘Manhattan Declaration,’ a manifesto developed after a New York meeting of conservative church leaders that ‘promises resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same sex marriage.’
NOM’s first public campaign was in 2008, supporting California’s Proposition 8, which sought to invalidate same-sex marriage in that state. It was widely mocked, including in a parody by satirist Stephen Colbert, for the ‘Gathering Storm’ video ad it produced at the time. Set to somber music and a dark and stormy background, the ad had actors expressing fears that gay activism would ‘take away’ their rights, change their lifestyle, and force homosexuality on their kids.
The group, whose president is now former executive director Brian Brown, has become considerably more sophisticated since then, emphasizing its respect for homosexuals. ‘Gays and Lesbians have a right to live as they choose,’ NOM says on its website, ‘[but] they don’t have the right to redefine marriage for all of us.’