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Are you outraged, right-wingers? These are bullying tactics!
Oh, please.
The injustice of the firing of Brendan Eich requires a response from all people who have the sense to understand that in America, we must not allow this kind of thing to take place. This company needs to learn a lesson, and any other company that would bow to the demands of gestapo-like mob action, such as has been taking place in California, organized by the homosexual militant Leftists to exact punishment on people who disagree with them.
A boycott is a good place to start. NO business should be allowed to continue to exist in America, that would fire an employee, based on the exercise of their First Amendment right to support and vote on issues that they agree with.
The actions of Mozilla against Brendan Eich have a chilling effect on free speech. This cannot be allowed to stand. Period. This company must be punished in some way, and if no legal action can be taken against them, the public has the right to exact it's own punishment, in whatever legal mean it has available.
"If competent individuals can be fired at work for their personal stances on issues that they do not bring into the workplace, then we are no longer in a free and open society, but a very tightly closed one where fear reigns and keeps us all under control--where our beliefs must yield to pre-set political and religious dogma we are force fed.
Not only is it hard to swallow that something like this could happen in our country, it is hard to fathom how anyone can be so self-righteous, so emboldened, to think it a perfectly good idea to socially engineer society with the same iron fists as history's liberty-crushing despots. All of that talk about equality, justice, liberty, tolerance and diversity, is just talk. It’s a one way street leading to oppression. And so frenzied are they with their viewpoints -- so intent on crushing any opposing ideas-- that they are blinded to their own bigotry." — Sally Zelikovsky
That's how it works in every company. If your publicly declared values and the company's values aren't in accordance, your career isn't going to progress. If a Sony music employee donated to restrict the RIAA's legal reach, do you think he'd be on the promotion track for long?
And Mozilla's values, open and free software, have nothing to do with homosexuality. They offer an excellent product. The company doesn't deserve to be punished. And Mr Eich doesn't deserve to be punished.
Nice nothing post. An anti-same sex marriage group is calling for a boycott of Mozilla?
Isn't that a "bullying" tactic right-wingers abhor?
Hardly. But nice try.
The bullying of those who supported Prop 8 is well documented. People's homes and automobiles have been vandalized as well as their businesses. They have been openly accosted in public, taunted with epithets and other forms of verbal abuse, even at their places of business, in an effort to stigmatize them among their co-workers.
If you don't have a problem with this, then perhaps you would be right at home in some third world despotic dictatorship.
Get some perspective. That's .07% of Intel's employees. Which means 99.03% of Intel employees did NOT contribute to Prop 8. And Intel supports marriage equality.
Mozilla didn't support marriage equality?
The policies at Mozilla were anti-homosexual?
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