People’s Rights (and Gay People Are People) (Updated) 4
Wow. Just wow.
The times they are a-changing (though climate change is likely to erase all the changes, but that’s a different post).
That was fast. The co-founder and CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, has decided to step down.
Eich’s decision, announced Thursday, came a few days after the dating website OkCupid started blocking Mozilla’s Firefox browser from accessing the dating site because Eich “is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.”
Normally, I don’t approve of browser sniffing, but I will make an exception in this case.
As I’ve said before, nothing that ever happened in a same-sex bedroom has affected a marriage of mine.
I cannot say the same for opposite se–oh, never mind.
Afterthought:
Wingnut World is claiming that Eich’s “freedom of speech” has been somehow violated. Seems to me he got to speak all he wanted to.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Also, what the Booman said.
Addendum, That Afternoon:
John Aravosis has an incisive analysis of the wingnut weaction. A nugget:
April 4, 2014 at 7:13 pm
Eich was one of the big bankrollers of Prop 8 in California. He should consider himself fortunate he wasn’t tossed into the landfill sooner.
April 4, 2014 at 7:18 pm
Never mind. Got that wrong by orders of magnitude. Still, shoulda kept his and Mozilla/Firefox’s noses out of it.
April 4, 2014 at 10:31 pm
He was a bankroller. Big or small, that says all that needs to be said.
April 5, 2014 at 12:42 am
Yes, he contributed to something that caused a lot of emotional pain and unfair suffering in the state. If the medicine of reckoning is bitter, swallow and shut up for he was on the wrong side.