I may actually even read this book at some point in future, since I usually try to separate between the author's public behavior or his opinions and the books he/she has written. That, however, doesn't change the way I am feeling about Orson Scott Card, so if I end up reading his novel, I will be extremely biased against it. I mean, come on: 
 "The dark secret of homosexual society -- the one that dares not speak its name -- is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally. [...] 	Homosexual "marriage" won't accomplish what they hope. They will still be just as far outside the reproductive cycle of life. And they will have inflicted real damage on those of us who are inside it. [...] They will make it harder for us to raise children with any confidence that they, in turn, will take their place in the reproductive cycle. They will use all the forces of our society to try to encourage our children that it is desirable to be like them. " 
 -"Homosexual 'Marriage' and Civilization," in The Ornery American, 2004 (source) 
 or 
 "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." 
 -Opinion piece in the Deseret News, 2008 (source) 
 Everyone's entitled to their personal opinion, but that does not make it okay to verbally downgrade other human beings who, after all, have never done anything wrong and will never hurt anyone with just being gay and trying to be happy. "Far outside the reproductive cycle of life" implies that older people or infertile people should not be allowed to marry either - after all, they are not part of the reproductive cycle of life, right? Basically, he's saying that gay people are evil, and yet, in another statement, he wrote about having many gay friends, while saying that anyone who isn't heterosexual "will use all the forces of our society to try to encourage our children that it is desirable to be like them". First of all, can he even prove that statement? Can he actually show valid proof that this is the case? Second of all ... oh, fuck it. I'm at a loss of words about how ignorant and insulting these statements are. 
 Rant over. People keep saying what a brilliant storyteller Card is, so I may still read this quite famous novel, but I will definitely wait for a possibility to borrow it from the library or get it somewhere for free.