Krauthammer calls for Mozilla ‘counter-boycott’ after company fired anti-gay marriage CEO

From the Daily Caller:

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer called for Americans to affect a “counter-boycott” of Mozilla after the company fired their CEO for donating to an anti-gay marriage campaign, calling the move “totalitarian discourse” that “shows a level of intolerance that ought to be unacceptable.”

Krauthammer spoke on a Fox News panel with USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers and conservative columnist George Will, discussing Brendan Eich’s dismissal from popular web browser provider Mozilla after activists discovered he donated $1,000 to California’s Prop 8 campaign — which made gay marriage illegal in the state. Many gay activists boycotted Mozilla, leading to Eich’s eventual termination.

Will noted that Eich’s dismissal is “an illustration of a new phenomenon. No one likes sore losers, but now we have sore winners. The gay rights movement is winning — particularly with regard to same-sex marriage — with a speed and breadth that simply takes your breath away . . . Yet unsatisfied with victory, they seem to want to stamp out and punish people for their previous views.”

While explaining that homosexual vindictiveness stems from decades of persecution in American society, Powers nevertheless expressed unease at the witch hunt against Eich. “Where does this end?” she asked. “Are we gonna start now — suddenly people are going to want their CEO fired because they gave to something they don’t like, or they’re pro-abortion rights and they have pro-life employees? So I think it’s a little bit out of control.”

As George Will said, "In addition to being evidence, redundant evidence, that progressive are for diversity in everything, but thought."

Think about that. Those clam to be for diversity, aren't, if it is not the "correct" diversity" and Progressive have been able to enforce this new dogma by taking over all the institutions of learning, to teach the next generation the "right" type of diversity.

Five Free Alternative Browsers for Windows

From Instapundit:

FIVE FREE ALTERNATIVE BROWSERS FOR WINDOWS. Most of these also have OSX versions. There’s also the Epic Browser.

I'm trying out Avant right now.

How did people find out that Mozilla’s CEO donated to support Prop 8?

From Allahpundit at Hot Air:

Rumors are floating around Twitter that proof of Brendan Eich’s donation was illegally leaked by people in government sympathetic to the cause of gay marriage. Not so. I’d forgotten about it, but friends reminded me that the LA Times obtained a list of people who gave, for and against, to the fight over the Prop 8 referendum in 2008. They put the whole database online and made it searchable. Search it today and, sure enough, there’s Eich with a $1,000 donation in favor. Under California law, that disclosure is perfectly legal: The state is authorized to provide certain personal information about anyone who donates more than $100 to a ballot measure. Why the state is allowed to do that, I’m not sure. The reason you want transparency when donating to a candidate is to prevent an elected official, who’s supposed to serve the public interest, from being secretly coopted by huge sums of money provided by a special interest. In a ballot measure, though, the money being spent is designed to influence the public itself. They’re the final arbiter of the public interest, no?

At the very least, if you’re worried about shadowy interests pouring cash into ads to sway a public referendum, the financial threshold to trigger disclosure should be way, way higher than $100. The Prop 8 donor list now functions essentially as a blacklist, and Eich isn’t its first or only victim. Remember, people who gave to Prop 8 have been harassed and had their property vandalized; the Heritage Foundation issued a report chronicling cases of intimidation back in 2009. Either Eich didn’t know the law when he chipped in 10 times the disclosure amount or he assumed that giving to a political cause as a private citizen wouldn’t cause people he worked with for years to force him out of the company upon conviction of a thoughtcrime. Which, by the way, is what this was. Jonathan Last seizes on the significance of Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker admitting that “I never saw any kind of behavior or attitude from him that was not in line with Mozilla’s values of inclusiveness.” If that’s the case, says Last, why exactly was Eich ousted?

So the problem isn’t with how he comported himself. It’s with what he thought…

So not believing in liberal dogma are punishable, by the left. What's next? Firing of non-believers in man-made global climate change? Abortion?

Where does it end?

And what happens when those on the opposite side of the aisle who can fire those who are pro-choice? Environmentalist?

One more thing, in 2009 when Eich donated to the Prop 8 initiative, he had the same belief as Senator Barack Obama, at the time.

Mozilla CEO Resigns After Furor over Same-Sex Marriage

From Breitbart's Big Government:

(AP) Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich is stepping down as CEO after protests of his support of a gay marriage ban in California.

The Mountain View-based nonprofit maker of the Firefox browser had promoted him last week.

At issue was Eich's $1,000 donation in 2008 to the campaign to pass California's Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that outlawed same-sex marriages. The ban was overturned when the U.S. Supreme Court last year left in place a lower-court ruling striking down the ballot measure.

The militant gay rights activist have another scalp. They do not tolerate any opinion other than those they approve.

Someone needs to stand up to them

Shocker -- Social Left Now On a Crusade to Force Head of Mozilla to Step Down Due to 2006 Donation of $1,000 to Prop 8

From Ace of Spades HQ:

(Liberals are) in favor of freedom-- the freedom to think, act, speak, believe and be precisely as they instruct you to be.

Now, get this, Mozilla employees are tweeting that their CEO must step down.

Incredible.

Here's a fun thought experiment:

What if the CEO fired the employees demanding he resign?

Can you imagine the firestorm?

I'm inclined to actually support his doing so, to illustrate the egregious double-standard on display here. Someone with a dissenting right-wing view? Purge 'em, with a million cheerlearders.

But someone with fired over a leftwing view? Why, the heavens would shake from the gnashing of teeth.

It would be a curious thing to watch the fired employee explain the following:

1. That I shouldn't have been fired for expressing my honestly-held political belief.

2. But my boss should have been fired for his own honestly-held political belief. Because, because -- No H8, Serious You Guys!!!

I really would like this vicious tribal hypocrisy put into sharp relief by a stunt firing like this.

This would be applying Alinsky's Rules for Radical against Liberals, but as I have discussed earlier, it's easier said than done.