If my kid's teacher was reading Ender's Game I'd call the Bigot Police because Orson Scott Card is a vile unrepentant homophobe.

I didn't know Card was so homophobic. Is that why he named the evil aliens "buggers"? ("Bugger" being, of course, British for butt secks)

Po-naw-gruh-fuh!

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/05…

I really didn't like learning that, Zed.

I've heard people ask "well what if you found out that Shakespeare didn't like Asians or whatever, would that make his writing any less powerful" and the answer is that Shakespeare is really really dead so who cares but Orson Scott Card is very actively, very loudly, very presently spouting homophobic nonsense. He doesn't get the Dead Bigot Pass.

Hercule. Not Hercules.