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You take every opportunity to insult Christians, don't you? But this has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with our Constitutional right to vote for and support causes we believe in.
Perhaps you should go back to the country you came from (if you ever left) and quit insulting America and Americans, especially Christians.
You take every opportunity to insult Christians, don't you? But this has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with our Constitutional right to vote for and support causes we believe in.
Nope, I don't have a problem with most Christians at all. Just the ones who call themselves "Christians" but don't act in any way Christlike and want to turn America into some kind of theocratic Jesusland.
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Originally Posted by FlamencoFreak
Perhaps you should go back to the country you came from (if you ever left) and quit insulting America and Americans, especially Christians.
Perhaps you need to learn you don't own the internet or have the right to shut down anyone else's speech. (Ironic, given the topic ).
IMHO - Unless the CEO is the sole proprietor and owner of the business he should leave his personal opinions at home. His job is to make actual owners as much money as possible and not push his personal political agenda.
This egotistical fool damages the corporation and should be fired. Same applies to the idiots operating the Hobby Lobby.
He apparently did leave his personal opinions at home, and he did not "push his personal political agenda" on anybody (did you even read about this at all?).
It was because of a California law, and a witch hunt (basically) conducted to expose anyone who had donated to the cause, and make their life miserable. Then the crybabies at Mozilla (there were only a handful) insisted that he be removed.
This had nothing to do with anything Brendan Eich did or said at Mozilla, or they wouldn't have appointed him in the first place.
This is a huge FAIL on the part of Mozilla. They treated Eich very badly. This will cause anyone who might consider working for Mozilla to take pause. It is going to hurt them for a long time to come. They have been stigmatized.
I'm not equating anything to anything. Extreme animus towards gay people IS all about blind prejudice.
There you go again! What makes you think Eich had "extreme animus" toward so-called "gay" people? He supports marriage as between a man and a woman (which it is). Why does that equate to "blind prejudice" and "extreme animus?"
What if Mozilla appoints a CEO that donated to the "defeat Prop 8" cause? Would he also be disqualified?
This begins to get a little sticky, doesn't it? And the fact that they have opened the door to questioning people about their political affiliations is troublesome.
Mozilla has been irreparably hurt by this. They handled the objections to Eich's appointment totally wrong. That is a sign of poor leadership.
If it's wrong to target the average citizen for his beliefs, how can it be right to target any citizen for his beliefs?
Just because Richard Branson is wealthy and newsworthy, he merits attack. But because I'm poor and not newsworthy, I don't merit attack?
This seems to me to feed into the argument of intimidation. By targeting the newsworthy, one is making a point to everyone else. If you share this person's opinions, you deserve to be punished.
Unfortunately, that is the society we have made for ourselves in recent years. It is because we have lost our sense of morality, and right and wrong. It seems, "anything goes."
The CEO did not let anyone know that he made a donation to support Prop 8, nor did he make any statements publically. The LA Times obtained a list of people who gave, for and against, to the fight over the Prop 8 referendum in 2008. They put the whole database online and made it searchable. The Free Market was not at work here, rather a political campaign to ruin someone exercising free speech.
There you go again! What makes you think Eich had "extreme animus" toward so-called "gay" people? He supports marriage as between a man and a woman (which it is). Why does that equate to "blind prejudice" and "extreme animus?"
I wasn't referring to Eich. I'm referring to people like you and smalltownblues who continually vilify gay and lesbian people.
Like using this whole Mozilla debacle to vilify gay and lesbian people. The boycott was mainly by OKCupid- a predominantly straight dating website with a straight CEO who created a pop-up asking OKCupid's users to not use Firefox to access their website. But you and those like you go on some insane vicious hysterical crusade about "gay armies, gay mafia, gay fascists blah blah rant rant..."
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