Orson Scott Card will be writing a story in the Adventures of Superman for DC Comics, a comic that The Comic Book Shoppe will not carry.

“Ottawa comic shop pulls books of anti-gay writer” blares the CBC headline. “’This is a man who wants to criminalize homosexuality,’ store owner says”.

Well, not quite.

Orson Scott Card is a Mormon, a writer of science fiction, and someone who believes gay marriage to be wrong. As the CBC article notes:

In a 1990 article for Sunstone Magazine, Card wrote an essay in which he said:

“Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society’s regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.”

What the CBC fails to say is that Card subsequently changed his opinion and, while he still does not agree with gay marriage and homosexual activity, he does not now advocate its criminalisation.

Perhaps the CBC has been infiltrated by the aliens from Enders Game:  the journalists, rather than thinking for themselves, exhibit ant-like group behaviour, deriving herd consensus from the Jungian wilderness of an unconscious zeitgeist. Or maybe they are just daft.