Will Those Who Claim To Be Open Minded Actually Be Open Minded One Day?

[thismeintiel]

PDF said:

thismeintiel said:

Like I said before, it's not like these people merely voiced their opposition to his views and personally decided to stop using Firefox. No, they wanted him gone. And they weren't going to let up until Mozilla got rid of him. Now, if this behavior is okay to you, my question is, where does it end? Is it okay to go to every company, go through their ranks, find everyone who doesn't support gay marriage, and have them ousted? Get rid of anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of the work force in America? If that sounds preposterous to you, then why was it okay to do that in this instance?

This question has already been answered.  There is a big dfference between the CEO - the face of the company and just some employee working the mail room.  It obviously would not be in the best interest of the company to layoff a third of its workforce.

I think the problem is you view this issue as if the guy simply said I like Pizza over hamburgers, and then the people freaked out and wanted him fired. Like theres no right or wrong side on the issue, just difference of opinion.  This is not the case, there is a morally correct answer.

People claiming not to be anti-gay but pro "traditional marriage" is like someone saying they are not racist they are just pro-segregation. 

So, if he shared your opinion, you'd be fine with him still being CEO, even though supporting or not supporting gay marriage doesn't affect his ability to do his job in the least.  And you say a mail guy is fine, but the CEO, not.  So, what I'm getting is that those who do not support gay marriage shouldn't try to work hard and make something of themselves, since the pro gay marriage movement will just see that he is fired.  Yea, nothing wrong with that at all.  :-/

Your last few sentences are just the same demonizing of the opposition I spoke of.  It's really unnecessary.