04/03/2014
The Washington Examiner reports:
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich forced to resign for supporting traditional marriage laws
BY JOEL GEHRKE | APRIL 3, 2014 AT 3:48 PM
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned under pressure after gay rights activists demanded that he step down or recant his support of traditional marriage laws.
Mozilla provides the free Firefox blogger. Eich invented JavaScript back in the 1990s while working for Netscape.
Eich donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that amended the state’s constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Proposition 8 passed, with especially heavy support from the black community.
"I don’t want to talk about my personal beliefs because I kept them out of Mozilla all these 15 years we've been going,” Eich told The Guardian. “I don’t believe they're relevant.”
That wasn’t an option. "CEO Brendan Eich should make an unequivocal statement of support for marriage equality," a Credoaction petition signed by almost 75,000 people said, per The Inquirer. "If he cannot, he should resign. And if he will not, the board should fire him immediately."
When asked if his beliefs about marriage should constitute a firing offense the way racism or sexism does, Eich argued that these religious beliefs — and beliefs popular as of 2008 — should not be used as a basis for dismissal.
"I don’t believe that’s true, on the basis of what’s permissible to support or vote on in 2008," he told CNET. "It’s still permissible. Beliefs that are protected, that include political and religious speech, are generally not something that can be held against even a CEO. I understand there are people who disagree with me on this one."
Shouldn’t Eich at least have been burnt at the stake?
America needs to conquer Crimea now, so the poor Crimeans can be free. We cannot rest until American troops install Masha Gessen as Imperial Procuratrix of Crimea.
(Speaking of Gay McCarthyism, the rumor that McCarthyism, as run by McCarthy’s chief-of-staff Roy Cohn, was more or less of a Big Gay Hissy Fit was a major engine in U.S. Army attorney Joseph Welch’s demolition of McCarthy in the Army-McCarthy hearings.)
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