There’s already a controversy brewing over Ender’s Game, with some saying gay rights supporters should boycott the movie due to the fact it’s based on a book by the decidedly anti-gay Orson Scott Card, who actively works against the extension of LGBT rights in the US.
However not everyone involved with the film agrees with Card’s views, as Ender’s Game star Harrison Ford has stepped forward to voice his support for gay marriage. Ford made the comments while talking about his new movie 42, about the first black Major League Baseball player.
Metro New York reports that he compared Robinson’s struggles to gay marriage, saying ”I think there’s a metaphor you can reach for, according to your own interests and your own understanding and your own issues. But trying to create the best expression of the ideals — the most equal society, the best-regulated society, the best-behaving society — depend on attending to equality and inequity whenever it rears its ugly head. Certainly the marriage issue conveniently falls into that category.”
He adds, “Things do change quickly at a tipping point, as it builds and it builds and it builds until there’s a moment where the balance of opinion, the weight of experience and the understanding comes to a point where the scales tip in the other direction. “We’re getting there, we’re getting there. You know, you would hope that it would have happened with less resistance. You would have hoped that everyone would get the point at the same time, but life’s not like that.”
Whether Ford’s views will mitigate the anger many already feel at Ender’s Game is yet to be seen.
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