| Raven722 said: Having conflicting opinions is one thing. Taking those opinions and using them as a reason to limit the rights of others, essentially making them second-class citizens, is detestable. You're pissed off that these people lashed out at someone who was paying to see their rights limited? |
It would be one thing if he were campaigning to make gay relationships illegal, but he simply campaigned to keep them extralegal or, at least, not called "marriage". Honestly, I'm not at all sure that you have the right to have the government put its stamp of approval on your relationship and call it by a particular name.
Now, the two sides don't really have the same degree of effect on one another. The pro Prop 8 side wanted to impose a particular definition of marriage even though they aren't personally affected by whether the state calls same sex couples marriages or civil unions or whatever, and it's understandable to me that gay couples would feel singled out and even aggressed against, particularly those who had already gotten married. But then it would be a lot more honest for Mozilla to drop the bullshit about, "We have diverse employees with diverse views, yadda yadda." Because no one thinks for a second that Eich would have been pushed out for having supported a pro-gay marriage referendum, so the two sides of the debate are not being treated as equally valid at all. If there is only one acceptable opinion for a public figure to hold on the matter, then we should quit pretending otherwise.
