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Celebrate Conformity ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 4 Apr 2014 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/06/2014 1:03:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan

On Wednesday, I wrote about the Mozilla CEO in trouble for a five-year-old donation to Proposition Eight, the successful California ballot measure that banned gay marriage - if only until America's robed rulers declared the will of the people to be "unconstitutional". Brandon Eich is a tech genius: Aside from co-founding Mozilla and creating Firefox, he also invented JavaScript. Apparently, the disgusting homophobic hatey-hatey-hateful belief that marriage is a sacrament between a man and a woman is not incompatible with knowing your way around a computer.

Nevertheless, unlike Hollywood director Brett Ratner, Mr Eich declined to eat gay crow. And so yesterday he was fired. Mozilla's chairwoman Mitchell Baker issued the usual tortured justification:

"Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech," Baker said. "And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard."

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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To: deks

Ack!!! My eyes!!!!


21 posted on 04/06/2014 8:43:34 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (I love my country; I don't like its government)
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To: listenhillary

Thanks for the link.


22 posted on 04/06/2014 8:49:49 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Flick Lives
"Holy moly! She looks like the love child of Elizabeth Warren and a janitor’s mop."

This thread is worth the morning, just for that!

23 posted on 04/06/2014 9:19:00 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Mater et Magistra.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Nope, not cancelling yet, because you haven't given me any information I didn't already have.

I already cited those very lines in my post. What it does not tell me is whether Steyn is done with the magazine itself, which is what I want to know.

24 posted on 04/06/2014 10:18:46 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: FredZarguna

There have been a number of magazines that have gome over to the Commie left.

Forbes, it took about four years after old man Forbes passed on that Stievie, who ran for Republican Pres. nomination finally forced me to drop subscribing to what used to be a “conservative” magazine.

Something very similar is happening with NR. They have taken less than four years to go Commie Left after the passing of Buckley. I still hold out hope but when my subscription runs out, I will think long and hard about other options


25 posted on 04/06/2014 10:19:39 AM PDT by DanZ
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To: DanZ
National Review, it appears, has fallen victim to a former Editor-in-Chief's dictum, O'Sullivan's First Law: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."

Personally, I blame Rich Lowry for this turn of events. In the recent contretemps with Jason Steorts at NRO it was the publisher himself who eventually stepped in. And the question went begging: why is NR's premiere writer calling the managing editor into the street in front of the whole world, and why did the Editor-in-Chief not short-circuit this entire discussion long before it got here?

I think the only answer that makes sense, unfortunately, is that Rich Lowry agreed with Jason Steorts [and sent him out to do his dirty work], and that is a very sad commentary on the state of National Review today.

I still enjoy Andrew McCarthy, Rich Long, and occasionally Jonah Goldberg. But if Steyn has parted company with them, I will, too.

26 posted on 04/06/2014 11:04:05 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: AZLiberty
Or Richard Feynmann because people denied the mathematics of quantum chromodynamics.

Feynman could hardly have done that, since he was one of them. He regarded the path integral formulation as laughably suspect; but justified because -- and only because -- it worked.

27 posted on 04/06/2014 11:06:56 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: Rummyfan

Homosexuals are desperate to be viewed as normal. They know they’re not and nothing will ever make their behavior or lifestyle normal. Actually, I am wrong, Jesus Christ will.


28 posted on 04/06/2014 12:48:34 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
Homosexuals are desperate to be viewed as normal.

Actually they want to get rid of what they call "Heteronormative Society", they actually see themselves as superior.

29 posted on 04/06/2014 12:49:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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