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Mozilla chief learns, if you don’t support gαy marriage, you don’t deserve a job

By Todd StarnesPublished April 04, 2014

As we enter this golden age of tolerance and diversity, the nation’s gαy rights community is sending a warning message to Americans: If you don’t support gαy marriage, you don’t deserve a job.

Apparently, Brendan Eich did not get that message. He’s the former chief executive officer at Mozilla, the technology group that gave us the Firefox Web browser.

Eich resigned under a firestorm of controversy after it was revealed he had donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that protected traditional marriage.
It’s unclear who outed Eich. But that really doesn’t matter. Once his donation was revealed, supporters of gαy marriage launched all-out war.

I trust there are rational and reasonable individuals within the gαy rights community who understand the dangers of stifling free speech and expression. But the voices that are winning the day are those who believe gαy rights trump everyone else’s rights.
The Wall Street Journal reported that OKCupid, the popular online dating website, asked its followers to stop using Firefox. The wireless company Credo Mobile gathered more than 50,000 signatures on a petition calling for Eich to resign.

OKCupid posted a letter denouncing the Mozilla CEO, The New York Times reported.

“Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame and frustration are our enemies and we wish them nothing but failure,” the letter stated.

Why not demand that those who oppose gαy marriage relinquish the right to own property? Why not take away their right to vote? Why not take away their children? Why not just throw them in jail? Why not force them to work in chain gangs? Why not call for public floggings? Or better yet, let’s just strap them down on gurneys, stick a needle in their arm and rid the world of these intolerant anti-gαy bigots once and for all.

Eich won’t say he was forced to resign, but based on the company’s press release, it’s safe to say his days were numbered.

“Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it,” Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker wrote in a statement.

“We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves.”

She went on to opine about freedom of speech and equality. In her estimation, one trumps the other.

“Equality is necessary for meaningful speech,” she wrote. “And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.”

No, not really, Ms. Baker. Our Founding Fathers sort of worked that out in the Bill of Rights.

I write about this very issue in my upcoming book, “God Less America.” There are pages and pages filled with stories of workers and business owners who’ve either lost their jobs or faced public floggings for their support of traditional marriage.

The left does not believe people who oppose gαy marriage should be allowed to engage in the democratic process. And they have a proven track record of intimidating and bullying those who do.

Just ask Angela McCaskill, the chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University. She was suspended after she signed a petition in her church to put a gαy marriage referendum on the ballot in Maryland.

Just ask Scott Eckern, the former artistic director of California Musical Theatre. He resigned under pressure after he gave money to support Prop 8. As one activist told The New York Times, “I do believe there comes a time when you cannot sit back and accept what I think is the most dangerous form of bigotry.”

Just ask our nation’s top military officials. They were called into President Obama’s office and told that if they could not support “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” they should resign their commissions.

“We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked at all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is what I want to do,’” said Coast Guard Adm. Robert Papp in remarks reported by Buzzfeed.

The road to political correctness is littered with the bodies of folks like Brendan Eich sideswiped by the tolerance and diversity bus.

I trust there are rational and reasonable individuals within the gαy rights community who understand the dangers of stifling free speech and expression. But the voices that are winning the day are those who believe gαy rights trump everyone else’s rights.

I know this may sound old-fashioned, but gainful employment should not be determined by where you put your reproductive organs.

Tolerance is a bitch, ain’t it?

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. Sign up for his American Dispatch newsletter, be sure to join his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter. His latest book is "God Less America”.

 

The National Organization for Marriage, which backed California's same-sex marriage ban, called on consumers to boycott the Firefox browser.

I have never been big on boycotts, but uninstalling Firefox will be on tomorrow's to-do list.

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Is this a typo or something?

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I have never been big on boycotts, but uninstalling Firefox will be on tomorrow's to-do list.

Why would you uninstall Firefox?  

The Mozilla Firefox people are OPPOSED to the fag agenda.  

I read more than just the article above, so I don't know which said which, but Mozilla forced their new CEO to resign over pressure from gαy rights people who were encouraging each other to boycott the company.

It was only ONE Mozilla person (a co-founder and newly-elected CEO) who had given $1,000 toward banning same-sex marriage and he has now resigned from the company.

Now, the National Organization for Marriage is calling for the boycott.

The trouble is that the companies do not seem to fear our boycotts, but they do fear the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs.  The news media is completely on their side, and any company or individual that takes a stand against them is smeared.

This fact has been demonstrated recently with the attack against Chick-Fil-A, the Duck Dynasty, the St. Patricks Day Parades, and now the poor gentleman at Mozilla.

Every time the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs take any action, they are presented by the media as the good guys, and we as ignorant, backward, bigots.

I think what we are seeing now is the tip of the iceberg for what is coming as they gain more political power.

Do you think Mozilla fears their power or simply agrees with them?

Did Chick-Fil-A or Duck Dynasty back down from their positions? It doesn't seem that either is suffering much in popularity. I think the raw numbers would suggest that they'd have more support / business and not less. Yes, the media would be against them, but how does that translate when it comes to their actual businesses?

I'm hoping we're at the start of a political swing at least a little back the other direction. Obama has had his chance to improve the economy and failed miserably, so the conservatives should have an opportunity to regain some ground.

It could be both, that some companies fear them and some agree with them.  Just recently three major beer companies, Heineken, Sam Adams, and Guinness withdrew their support from the St. Patrick's Day Parades in New York and Boston because the Parade refused to allow ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs to march and promote their agenda.  

I agree with you completely that we need to actively resist these people.  I do get discouraged at active resistance, however, when I am not even able to convince Catholics to vote.