<story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopamean</author><text>I generally agree with you but I think the problem here is that being against gay marriage is more than just a &amp;quot;political view.&amp;quot;  Being for low taxes is a political view.  Being for smaller government is a political view.  Believing a certain group of people don&amp;#x27;t deserve to live their lives like other simply because of who they love is not a political view.  It reads as extremely hateful and that makes people uncomfortable.  I would be uncomfortable if the head of the company I worked for felt that way.</text></item><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying. Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views, even if they had absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the job.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel like this campaign has done a lot more harm to him than his $1000 donation could have ever done to anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>I support legalizing gay marriage. But two things, first, supporting prop 8 does not mean you &amp;quot;believe a certain group of people don&amp;#x27;t deserve to live their lives like others.&amp;quot; It means you don&amp;#x27;t believe that the government should recognize same sex marriages as marriages. There are a large gradient of views here, and on one extreme are the bigots who hate homosexuals and on the other there are people who simply have hangups about the word &amp;quot;marriage&amp;quot; vs &amp;quot;civil unions.&amp;quot; As far as I know Brendan has never articulated his opinions on the matter, they have just been extrapolated from a $1,000 donation.&lt;p&gt;Second, support of prop 8 would have been a mainstream viewpoint less than 10 years ago. In many parts of the country, support of prop 8 &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a mainstream viewpoint. People who have different upbringings in different geographic areas are of course going to be biased towards certain views, and it&amp;#x27;s a bit unfair to chastise them for not completely realigning their viewpoints overnight for something that has probably been the fastest and most productive civil rights movement, maybe ever. People love to talk about tolerance except when tolerance means they have to deal with people who were raised with fundamentally different views, or people who may even have the same views they did a decade ago but failed to &amp;quot;evolve.&amp;quot; This could have been an opportunity to attempt bring someone, a powerful CEO, to the side of being informed and support gay rights but instead it was a witch hunt and an embarrassment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopamean</author><text>I generally agree with you but I think the problem here is that being against gay marriage is more than just a &amp;quot;political view.&amp;quot;  Being for low taxes is a political view.  Being for smaller government is a political view.  Believing a certain group of people don&amp;#x27;t deserve to live their lives like other simply because of who they love is not a political view.  It reads as extremely hateful and that makes people uncomfortable.  I would be uncomfortable if the head of the company I worked for felt that way.</text></item><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying. Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views, even if they had absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the job.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel like this campaign has done a lot more harm to him than his $1000 donation could have ever done to anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewpi</author><text>So Barack Obama, the President of the US, was against gay marriage in 2008; I&amp;#x27;m confused as to why he gets a pass here, but the head of Mozilla doesn&amp;#x27;t?</text></comment>