News of the Week for April 6th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hey, OkCupid, no plan to boycott former Mozilla CEO\u2019s \u2018homophobic\u2019 JavaScript?<\/a> Considering how meaningless marriage has become, I hereby withdraw any opposition I\u2019ve ever had to gay marriage<\/a> OKCupid Goes Full Fascist for the Gays<\/a> “Recant Your Heresies,” the Freethinker Demanded, Trembling with Religious Fury and Transcendant Ecstasy<\/a> No more Firefox for me \u2014 I don\u2019t do business with fascists<\/a> Corrosive Conformity <\/a> Mozilla’s Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values<\/a> A Gay CEO with Balls Needs to Hire Eich and Halt this Crap<\/a> Purge the Bigots<\/a> The Radical Left\u2019s High-Stakes Gamble on Intolerance <\/a> Intolerance in the Name of Tolerance<\/a> Slate pro-tip on executive management: Only bad CEOs oppose same-sex marriage<\/a> The rise of totalitarian liberalism<\/a> Mozilla blowback: bursting the PC bubble?<\/a> A Future of Fear<\/a> Mozilla Clams Up<\/a> OkFascist<\/a> Gingrich Goes Off on Left\u2019s \u2018New Fascism\u2019 After Mozilla CEO\u2019s Ouster<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Mozilla Fallout<\/h1>\n
\nDating website OkCupid led the witch hunt for Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich, boycotting the Firefox web browser over Eich\u2019s 2008 donation in support of California\u2019s Prop 8. As soon as Eich resigned as CEO of Mozilla, OkCupid traded in the pitchforks for champagne.<\/p>\n
\nUp until our very modern era, before a girl got married, she was (in theory, at least) a sexually uninitiated child under her parents\u2019 care. Marriage was her entry into the adult world: she left her parents; her faith and her state both encouraged her to have sex (with her husband); and she began producing and raising the next generation. For centuries, even millennia, the wedding was the single most transformative event in every woman\u2019s life. It marked a profound change in her standing in society, from child to woman.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019d like for people who support gay marriage to answer this question: Is it right to deny employment to someone who opposes gay marriage?<\/p>\n
\nAn anonymous writer — an insider in the tech world, but unwilling to share his or her name (go figure) — writes about the Moral Panic burning over the tech industry over the elevation of Brendan Eich to the head of Mozilla.<\/p>\n
\nAs of today, I am no longer a Firefox user. I think that, after you read about Brendan Eich\u2019s travails, you\u2019ll agree that you don\u2019t want to be a Firefox user anymore either.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2008, Barack Obama and Brendan Eich both were against gay marriage. Senator Obama averred his support for the one-man\/one-woman view of marriage, while Mr. Eich, a cofounder of the Mozilla web-browser company, donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8 \u2014 a California ballot initiative that had the effect of making Senator Obama\u2019s avowed marriage policy the law in California, at least until a federal court overturned it on the theory that California\u2019s constitution is unconstitutional. Barack Obama inexplicably remains, as of this writing, president of the United States of America, but Mr. Eich has just been forced out as CEO of Mozilla because of his political views.<\/p>\n
\nThe forced resignation of Brendan Eich will have a chilling effect on political discourse.<\/p>\n
\nIf the headline strikes some as offensive, it will nevertheless remain, because that\u2019s the case I\u2019m making, and I\u2019m sticking with it: a gay CEO with a pair of brass ones needs to step up and speak truth to a growing, and most illiberal new power. He or she needs to hire Brendan Eich in some sort of corporate leadership capacity for the sake of the most fundamental of freedoms \u2014 the freedom to think what you want to think, even if your thinking is unpopular or deemed \u201cmistaken\u201d \u2014 and in so doing boldly declare that our society has no truck with inquisitions.<\/p>\n
\nBrendan Eich is just the beginning. Let\u2019s oust everyone who donated to the campaign against gay marriage.<\/p>\n
\nNot for the first time, the radical Left is moving rapidly away from any respect for free speech and pluralism and is decisively throwing itself into creating a self-righteous culture of intolerance and intimidation. It\u2019s playing a dangerous game, one that is already alienating its own allies.<\/p>\n
\nThe online campaign that led to Brendan Eich’s resignation was intolerant and obnoxious. Also, stupid. But please don’t blame the gay community. Blame the people who did it and who do not represent or resemble mainstream gay America.<\/p>\n
\nActually, Slate has two pieces up today on the Mozilla\/Firefox nuttiness that cost Brendan Eich his job as CEO of the company, for a private political donation six years ago for a referendum that passed in California by a significant majority. Let\u2019s see if you can guess which one is the satire. <\/p>\n
\nGeorge Orwell gave us a look at the operation of a totalitarian one-party state in 1984. This week Mozilla gave us a look at its nascent liberal variant. Recently appointed CEO Brandon Eich was officially made a nonperson. He was dispatched down the memory hole as the company announced that he has \u201cstep[ped] down from his role as CEO\u201d as a result of his contribution of $1,000 to the passage of California\u2019s Prop 8 six years ago. <\/p>\n
\nThe people at Mozilla may yet live to regret their decision in cooperating with the forcing out of Brendan Eich.<\/p>\n
\nAs we noted in Mozilla Burning, the real purpose of going after Eich was to harass and intimidate everyone who supports the traditional view of marriage. Its purpose was to drive such people out of polite society. Or make them shut up. The mob has no interest in winning hearts and minds anymore, not when crushing them swiftly will do.<\/p>\n
\nFirefox meets firestorm.<\/p>\n
\nMozilla, the company that makes the web browser Firefox, committed the only unforgivable sin progressives have \u2013 it hired someone who didn\u2019t toe the progressive line to be its CEO. Uniformity of thought is the new black, and a straying from that plantation lands you on the new blacklist. That\u2019s where Brendan Eich finds himself now for daring to stray from the progressives\u2019 plantation on gay marriage.<\/p>\n
\nOn This Week With George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning, 2012 South Carolina GOP primary winner Newt Gingrich decried the \u201cnew fascism\u201d that forced people out of their jobs for having conservative beliefs \u2014 the most recent example being, according to Gingrich, former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, who stepped down last week after public outrage over his $1,000 donation to an organization supporting California\u2019s Proposition 8, which would have banned same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n