Litterbury

I had just written a little piece on Twilight in which I detailed my casual fascination with the saga, and how, for me, it tied in with Mormonism and Proposition 8.  The piece is here:

http://litterbury.com/2009/11/23/obligatory-twilight-post/

I expressed my latent fears of supporting Twilight if there could be a potential issue of homophobia in regards to the author, Stephenie Meyer.  I just watched a Q&A clip Meyer did for Oprah.com following Meyer’s appearance on Winfrey’s talk show.  In it, Meyer raves about sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card, someone who is deeply homophobic and staunchly against the issue of same-sex marriage.  The link to the clip follows and Meyer mentions Card at about the 3:37 mark:

http://www.oprah.com/media/20091113-orig-stephenie-meyer

The Wikipedia entry for Card has a whole section on his stances of people who are gay, but I decided to pick this little nugget: “With regard to the acceptance of legal same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and California, Card writes that: “The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to ‘gay marriage,’ is that it marks the end of democracy in America. These judges are making new law without any democratic process; in fact, their decisions are striking down laws enacted by majority vote.”  And there’s much more where that came from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Card

Does this reflect poorly on Meyer’s part? Yes, it does, but there’s no direct way of knowing where she stands on gay rights from this alone, though it is troubling.