I don't 'blame' Orson Scott Card—I just make the consumer choice to avoid his work

I'm thrilled that the director and young stars of Enders Game are speaking out against Orson Scott Card's shocking ant-gay rhetoric….

'Ender's Game' stars answer gay rights questions [AP via Yahoo! News]

….but I do have to pushback against a new meme that is popping up around the film. Namely, the idea that "you can't blame a work for its author," a claim that young star Asa Butterfield makes in the above-linked AP story but that is the general tone that all of the film's defenders are using t...