Stephenie Meyer..Church Discipline or no?

[_The Dude]

I've seen Stephanie Myers' new book cover in the windows of bookstores all across the country in the last few weeks. From Seattle to New York, Portland, and Washington DC, plus airport bookstores in Houston and Atlanta. My wife and her LDS-believing sisters have all read these books, and it sounds like they range from gushing praise to "meh", but I've never read any of her stuff.

Should she be disciplined if she did include sex?

What if you said Sephanie Myers' books are fictional, involving unrealistic vampires and werewolves that the vast majority of people (incuding Mormons) do not believe in. Maybe marriage and sex involving unrealistic vampires and werewolves is also necessarily unrealistic. So should this really bother us?

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[_Gadianton]

Considering Orson Scott Card himself has some bizarre sex related stuff in his books, there will always be other factors to consider.

For instance, is she paying a full tithe on all those royalties? Does she have controversial views about the church? One can be a channel for pornography as in a certain hotel chain we all know about, and still mingle with the inner circle.

Rest assured, if she ever began a career writing for Sunstone the probability that her "sins" would be problematic would go up. Remember, Mike Quinn wasn't ex'd for being an intellectual, but for personal sins.

[_The Nehor]

Considering Orson Scott Card himself has some bizarre sex related stuff in his books, there will always be other factors to consider.

For instance, is she paying a full tithe on all those royalties? Does she have controversial views about the church? One can be a channel for pornography as in a certain hotel chain we all know about, and still mingle with the inner circle.

Rest assured, if she ever began a career writing for Sunstone the probability that her "sins" would be problematic would go up. Remember, Mike Quinn wasn't ex'd for being an intellectual, but for personal sins.

If Stephanie Meyer were known to be a practicing lesbian I guarantee she would face Church discipline whether she wrote popular books or not.

[_ajax18]

Isn't there a difference between writing about violence and pre-marital sex and promoting it?

[_Alter Idem]

Ajax, you make a good point-I believe there is a difference.

Liz, since you are unfamiliar with Orson Scott Card (my husband and daughters think he's a GOD because they are utter fantasy freaks--I like non-fiction so I haven't read as much of his stuff) I thought I'd give you a link to an article he wrote on this exact topic. I believe this is the same article which is in his book "A storyteller in Zion" which was great. It addresses the topic of the problem of evil in fiction and is a good read for anyone who questions how an LDS person can write about evil and without contributing to "evil". Personally, I think Card sums it up very nicely.

http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-talk.html

In answer to your comment, Ajax, I think Card explains that there is a difference between writing about it and promoting it. You might also find this article interesting if you aren't already familiar with it.