Brendan Eich, former head of Mozilla. Credit: Mozilla Foundation via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Posted on 04/04/2014 5:46:43 PM PDT by NYer
.- Critics slammed Web browser Firefox's announcement that CEO Brendan Eich resigned in wake of controversy surrounding his support of traditional marriage, calling the move intolerant of free speech.
Andrew Sullivan – founding editor of political blog “The Dish” and writer of the first national cover-story in favor of the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in 1989 – strongly criticized Eich's resignation in a April 3 post.
“Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks?” he wrote, adding that “The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.”
“If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out,” Sullivan noted.
“If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”
As co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich was appointed as the company's Chief Executive Officer just last month, but has stepped down after his 2008 personal donation of $1,000 to support California’s Proposition 8 – which opposed the legalization of gay “marriage” – came under fire by some within the LGBT community.
According to USA Today, online dating site OKCupid even urged a boycott of the search engine, calling on Firefox users to change their browser in protest to Eich's appointment.
The newspaper also reports that last week Eich attempted to dispel the concerns erupting over the web and social media by writing in a March 26 blog post that “I can only ask for your support to have the time to 'show, not tell;' and in the meantime, express my sorrow at having caused pain.”
“I am committed,” he wrote, “to ensuring that Mozilla is, and will remain, a place that includes and supports everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, economic status or religion.”
However, the public apology was not enough to satisfy those criticizing Eich's stance in support of traditional marriage, and many are claiming that his move to resign was unfair and pushed by same-sex “marriage” advocates.
In a statement Thursday, Mozilla's executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker insisted that Eich “made this decision for Mozilla and our community.”
The Washington Examiner reflected in an April 3 piece, however, that Eich “resigned under pressure after gay rights activists demanded that he step down or recant his support of traditional marriage laws.”
Political scholar and author Ryan T. Anderson also decried the decision in an April 3 article published in The Foundry, noting that “the outrageous treatment of Eich is the result of one private, personal campaign contribution to support marriage as a male-female union.”
It is, he observed, “a view affirmed at the time by President Barack Obama, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, and countless other prominent officials. After all, Prop 8 passed with the support of 7 million California voters.”
Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in November 2008 supporting the traditional definition of marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling.
Ultimately the proposition was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010, although the ruling was not official confirmed until June 26, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed proponents' appeals based on lack of legal standing.
I agree, I hated to get rid of it but this is what Mozilla wanted, they wanted to piss off people and this is what they got..let’s see if they come to their senses because this is wrong and this is very dangerous..the homosexual left is taking over this country and its up to US to save it
Damn..so what your saying is I went from bad to worse..what other browser do you suggest?
You said it, Sarah, and I agree!
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter of traditional marriage?”
Wow is this from John Stemmons or the Onion? Homosexuals actually saying their fellow homosexuals are pushing it too far? I am shocked!
Firefox is dead!
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I am SO gonna have to get used to this new browser..Im used to the refresh button being on the right side LOL..Mozilla really screwed up here, but they allowed the homos to dictate how they think so they will have to live with the consequences
Try Opera. You can download at opera.com, and it has various versions not just for 'doze users but Linux as well.
Just use Ixquick.
They don’t pass your identity through on searches.
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“.so what your saying is I went from bad to worse..what other browser do you suggest?”
I hear you, Sarah Barracuda. I can’t give you clear path. Sorry.
We ran safehouses here in the US during the Tiananmen Square protests back in ‘89 when that prick George Bush Sr said he would turn over American Chinese students over to the tender mercies of the ChiComm murderers.
I’ve hated that POS Bush since.
He would have been condemned if he stayed on or if he quit.
What a shame that such a small, Godless percentage of our society can have such an outsized effect.
Queers: "We are the 3.5%."
Thanks for the uninstall link!
Just to name a few...
Thanks for the info will give that a shot. The only thing so far about Chrome that I dont like is that Im getting a headache, not sure if its related to Chrome. I have eye issues so I always make the font larger but the tabs are still small so its hard for me to see not sure how to make them larger
Try Chromium or Opera. They are excellent. You can always uninstall them if they don't meet your expectations.
HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF....FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE AND I DID NOTHING.....
Wow he is very pissed.
Will try out Opera..mind as well try out a few different kinds and see which one I like best
Firefox will soon be gone from my computer as soon as I import my links. Let them know how I felt on their website. I’m tired of companies thinking they can act like this and there are no repercussions.
I'm on a Mac, so I've switched over to Safari. I hated the last version of Safari, but with the Mavericks upgrade, I'm kinda liking it. I also highly recommend Opera's browser. I love the new Chrome, but if you install it, do not "sign in" to your Google accounts or they absolutely will track everything you do. It's a great interface, but I will only use it for work and not my personal web space.
You notice no one recommends IE? Yeah. Blech.
With something like 500 million users, I doubt us Conservatives dumping them will have much affect. But what should happen is to turn the Gaystapo's tactics back on them. Call on Drudge and other news sites (even Free Republic!) to block any user who is on Firefox. That is apparently what the Gaystapo was doing before Eich caved in and resigned. Maybe that will get their attention.
And be sure to drop by the Mozilla Input board and let them know what you think: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/
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