Writers of the Future

Never heard of it. What is it? What are the problems you've heard about? Got any links to articles?

 

It is a well-known and legitimate contest. Looking at a partial list of past winners (from Wikipedia) you see:

Stephen Baxter, Karen Joy Fowler, James Alan Gardner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jay Lake, Michael H. Payne, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Reed, Dean Wesley Smith, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, Nancy Farmer, and David Zindell.

List of judges for the contest has included a bunch of prominent names as well.

 

Religious discussion isn't forbidden so long as the discussion is respectful of the religious viewpoints at issue.

 

If the question is about whether to support or participate in something that supports values you oppose, for me, it depends on the degree of separation and the severity to which they violate those values. The company supporting something is different than the owner or founder supporting something with their own paycheck, for instance. Contributing to an organization run by scientologists is different than giving money to a scientology church. Whether that difference matters in any particular case, sometimes it might, sometimes it might not.