For the most part, I don’t let the politics of my entertainers get in the way of my enjoyment. The fact that Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, and Gopher from the Love Boat are right wingers doesn’t get in the way of me enjoying their stuff. (Frequently the quality of their stuff gets in the way of me enjoying their stuff, but that’s another story.)

Via The Editors, Orson Scott Card, an author whose books I have enjoyed, has sprinted past Dennis Miller in the too-loony-to-enjoy-anymore sweepstakes. With Miller, it hasn’t been that his politics are so utterly beyond the pale, it’s that his politics are so entwined with his entertainment product. With Card, primarily a science-fiction writer, that is not so much the case. However, this little pro-treason outburst is jaw-dropping:

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.

Card is a Mormon, and that might be what makes me think of this. But his rant reminds me quite a bit of some of the pro-polygamy rants I’ve seen from fundamentalist Mormons who proclaim that they’ll see the Godless United States burn before abandoning the Sacred Principle of “plural marriage.”

In any event, as divorced from politics as they may be, I suspect I won’t be able to enjoy Card’s stories anymore without thinking about his willingness to foresake the United States Constitution before seeing a gay couple happily married, by god.