[KevinB]

The government can defend your right to hold an unpopular opinion and still keep your job, as it did with other minority characteristics.

I'm not sure what you're referring to there.

The First Amendment doesn't impose a duty upon the government to defend free speech, it limits the government's ability to stifle free speech.

I wish the Mozilla guy hadn't backed down, but I don't see it as a free speech issue.

[dayglored]

You’re quite correct about what the Constitution does and doesn’t compel the government to do or not do. No argument there.

But when it comes to minorities in the workplace, the government ignores the Constitution and does all sorts of stuff it shouldn’t.

I was saying, given that the government has already far overstepped what it should do, with regard to the workplace, why can’t it at least be consistent or even-handed and defend the right of a private individual to not get fired for having an unpopular opinion and privately supporting it?