Intolerant & bigoted gay lobby force Mozilla chief to step down

[xxMATTGxx]

The staff inside the company at Mozilla weren't happy with the chosen CEO so in the end it was always going to end like this unfortunately for him.

[The Don]

i didnt mean he has no right to donate his money but when you're so passionate about opposing something you also gotta face the consequences especially if you're at such a high post in a company

Sorry I should've quoted dan, none of my post was aimed at you.

[GommeInc]

Basic free market principles. This is a perfect example of it and if people boycotted then they did so with their own volition and not through being forced by that service. Besides, Mozilla base themselves on openness and freedom, they even supported gay rights so these revelations were completely contradictory to their fundamental beliefs so it was only a matter of time before this would happen. He shouldn't build a company on a philosophy not just for the internet but in society and then contradict. He was only going to be burned in the end for it.

[Inseriousity.]

I think Matt's right, I doubt this was really anything to do with the boycott and more internal office politics. People threaten boycotts all the time (recent Amazon, Google, Starbucks) but their CEOs are still in place.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I agree with you all on the free market principle (being the biggest advocate of the free market on here I naturally agree).

What I am getting at is the fact that people seem to have no problem - if not agree with this man losing his job - whereas I wonder what would have been the reaction on this forum had the public boycotted a large company for hiring a gay CEO which resulted in him losing his job?

For some reason I think the reaction would have been different.

[FlyingJesus]

Prob because someone being gay isn't an attempt at infringing on anyone else

[GommeInc]

I agree with you all on the free market principle (being the biggest advocate of the free market on here I naturally agree).

What I am getting at is the fact that people seem to have no problem - if not agree with this man losing his job - whereas I wonder what would have been the reaction on this forum had the public boycotted a large company for hiring a gay CEO which resulted in him losing his job?

For some reason I think the reaction would have been different.

I'm leaning towards it not being because the remarks he made but because inside Mozilla no one wanted him there - this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I recall him being a difficult one to work with so getting id of him was probably done far too late to make it look like he was homophobic when really it was because he was intolerable in general. But you know, the media will just go with the recent events and not look at the history behind someone

[karter]

Homosexuality vs Homophobia
lovely comparison literally what the **** are you thinking

[peteyt]

Basic free market principles. This is a perfect example of it and if people boycotted then they did so with their own volition and not through being forced by that service. Besides, Mozilla base themselves on openness and freedom, they even supported gay rights so these revelations were completely contradictory to their fundamental beliefs so it was only a matter of time before this would happen. He shouldn't build a company on a philosophy not just for the internet but in society and then contradict. He was only going to be burned in the end for it.

Exactly. Mozilla was always about freedom - at the end of the day if he doesn't believe in gay marriage I don't care but its a bit different when your going out your way to prevent it. I don't understand transexualls and find it wrong but I wouldn't go and try and change it because it doesn't affect my day and if it makes them happy fair enough. Same with gay marriage - I don't understand why people are so against it - like the vicar on Googlebox said - if two men love each other in this day and age why should we be able to tell them no and if your going to take the bible serious to the word does that mean we'd have to bring back stoning

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/08/ok...e-congressman/

A co-founder of OkCupid, the matchmaking website that helped topple a tech CEO for a political donation against gay marriage, has apologized for his own contributions to an anti-gay marriage congressman.

HAHAHAHAHA. Love it.