Mozilla CEO Resigns Amid Controversy Over Stance Against Gay Marriage

[Colpy]

"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" - Small Dead Animals

 

[coldstream]

But every individual with homophobic skeletons in the closet must
have cringed at the sight of a private individual being held accountable in
such a public way for past bigotry.

Wait a sec.. i never heard Eich 'apologize' or acknowledge that he was bigoted.

Maybe he followed moral or religious principles which holds and always will hold that homosexuality is a grave moral disorder, a contradiction to natural law, a destructive psychological pathology and an intrinsic evil with devastating effects on individuals or societies who incorporate it into their constitutional ethos. He might well have had the best interests of those in the grips of homosexual addiction and delusion in mind.

Eich's better off anyway. The culture of Mozilla sounds like it is rank with degraded fantasy and futility. It's no fun working at place where you feel you have to take a shower after you come home from work. I'm sure the company will end up on the rocks sooner or later.. hardly something in which i'd advise you invest.

 

[coldstream]

There appears to be a significant backlash against Mozilla's action with even proponents of homosexual rights equating the actions to McCarthyism and HUAC witch hunts, where even the ability to earn a living is subject of political conformity.

More problematic for Mozilla the backlash is extending to customers and to the tech community where Eich was held in high regard.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/04/06/mozilla-feels-stinging-backlash-over-ceo-boot-110840

 

[B00Mer]

If I did, it would be my business.

Okaaaay lol

 

[Colpy]

One-Way Discovery Channel :: SteynOnline

Over at Skeptic Ink, the Prussian quotes a colleague...

What has anything about Eich's story to do with laws or the constitution? Either Eich chose to resign because of negative PR, or was fired. Both are private actions made freely by people or entities who have the right to do that. What happened was an expression of freedom, not a curtailment.
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...and begs to differ:

Imagine the counter-case. You're broadly supportive of gay marriage and you make a minor donation to a pro-gay marriage cause. Next week, you are hauled up in front of your boss, a conservative Christian, and told, "Sorry, we can't have chaps who promote degeneracy around here" and promptly sacked.
Sound good? Would you say "Oh, that's just an expression of his freedom"?
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[Tonington]

The two situations aren't analogous... Now if we're the CEO or President of some company, that's a different matter. I'm a scientist, my opinion doesn't cause the stock price to rise or fall, doesn't cause the Regulatory Agencies to look at my employer differently.

In this counter case, I'm clearly being sacked because my boss is intolerant of my opinion. In Eich's case that may also be true, but it is definitely also true that as the leader of the company his actions have impacts on the companies PR.

 

[DaSleeper]

Ok boys and girls, have a gander:

Barack Obama on Gay Marriage - YouTube

Where was that criticism when the mainstream media was carrying Obama on their shoulders on his way to the White House in 2008?

Now,

‘Should he be impeached?’ A reminder about who had same definition of marriage as ex-Mozilla CEO

News that, in 2008, former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to the effort to pass California’s Proposition 8 in support of traditional marriage has culminated in Eich being forced to resign as head of the company. Some are even claiming that Eich’s position on the issue means he’s not fit to run a large organization.

Can we retroactively apply the same “rules” the Left is demanding? Where was this kind of outrage a mere few years ago? Those are among the questions being asked.

President Obama didn’t change his position on the issue of gay marriage until the spring of 2012, but we don’t recall the Left insisting that disqualified him from the presidency.

Holding a pro traditional marriage opinion while running a tech company though is apparently a total disqualifier.


read the whole thing with the prog tweets too:

‘Should he be impeached?’ A reminder about who had same definition of marriage as ex-Mozilla CEO | Twitchy


cram it mozilla. the board should be fired.

"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" - Small Dead Animals

Why is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room?

 

[Colpy]

The Job Interview:

 

[Locutus]

The Liberal Gulag

The word “liberal” has taken a beating over the last few days: A Mozilla executive was hounded out of his position at the firm he co-founded by left-wing campaigners resolved to punish him for having made a donation to a successful California ballot initiative that defined marriage in traditional terms;

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The Liberal Gulag | National Review Online