Posted on 04/07/2014 2:37:04 AM PDT by markomalley
Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan, wrote Will Oremus, Slates senior tech writer in an altogether typical op-ed applauding the sacking of the bigoted Brendan Eich for his support of traditional marriage. Its more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others.
Last week, Eich could not grovel quite enough to keep his job as CEO of Mozilla, a software enterprise best known for producing the Firefox web browser. He resigned under pressure after marriage equality activists revealed that Eich had donated $1,000 to the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign in California. Proposition 8, which passed with more than 52 percent of the vote, amended the California constitution to read, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
Distressingly few editorialists came to Eichs defense. Like too many others, Oremus made the case that Eichs forced departure was somehow anomalous: the tech community, being socially liberal, has higher standards than the rest of America. Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker made the same point to justify the sack. Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard, said Baker, and, this past week, we didnt live up to it.
Both Oremus and Mitchell seemed to making the case that yielding to the tech mobs desire for the head of the bigot Oremuss word somehow elevated the move or at least justified it. This may be a different standard from what we are used to, but there is nothing historically unusual here at all. Fascist mobs routinely reduce the most decent of opponents to cruel stereotypes and demand their exclusion from polite society.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There is no freedom of speech in the USA. Was. Isn’t.
Thanks. I wondered too how Mozilla made their money. I rarely use Google and I’ve switched to the Blue Moon browser. The browser switch was easy.
https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?selected=7d&date_start=2014-03-28
And this is where it is imperative to be honing your skills and talents. There will be a time when we will NEED to each other's strength.
Pretty soon parents will be thrown in jail in they merely dislike having old homos molest their kids. I'm not joking.
-Mike and the Mechanics: Silent Running.
Set up my favorites in MSExplorer for now and deleted MFF from my computers.
Any suggestions for which browser to use where the advert dollars earned aren’t spent punishing non PC execs?
A lot of people have been switching to Blue Moon Browser. It is identical to Firefox but they say FF doesn’t get a penny. I don’t know but I am using it for now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.