As a few of you may now know, the new writer for the Ultimate Iron Man mini seies coming out next year was announced in a Time.com article. Orson Scott Card, perhaps best known for his ENDERS GAME series of sci-fi novels, is the guy. Of course, there are always naysayers whenever any new creative team is announced for a book, but the links and comments are coming fast and furious this time. Seems Card is a Mormon, which’ll be interesting since Tony Stark is a pretty obvious man of excess and alcohol. Of course, that could be written around or simply ignored, but the following viewpoint could be something Marvel could catch some flack for, possibly even from their current crop of rather liberal and open-minded creators.

From a weekly column Card writes

What happens now if children grow up in a society that overtly teaches that homosexual partnering is not “just as good as” but actually is marriage?

Once this is regarded as settled law, anyone who tries to teach children to aspire to create a child-centered family with a father and a mother will be labeled as a bigot and accused of hate speech.

Can you doubt that the textbooks will be far behind? Any depictions of “families” in schoolbooks will have to include a certain proportion of homosexual “marriages” as positive role models.

Television programs will start to show homosexual “marriages” as wonderful and happy (even as they continue to show heterosexual marriages as oppressive and conflict-ridden).

The propaganda mill will pound our children with homosexual marriage as a role model. We know this will happen because we have seen the fanatical Left do it many times before.

So when our children go through the normal adolescent period of sexual confusion and perplexity, which is precisely the time when parents have the least influence over their children and most depend on the rest of society to help their children grow through the last steps before adulthood, what will happen?

Oh yeah - this could get reeeeal interesting to watch.

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