Brendan Eich, former head of Mozilla. Credit: Mozilla Foundation via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Posted on 04/04/2014 5:46:43 PM PDT by NYer
.- Critics slammed Web browser Firefox's announcement that CEO Brendan Eich resigned in wake of controversy surrounding his support of traditional marriage, calling the move intolerant of free speech.
Andrew Sullivan – founding editor of political blog “The Dish” and writer of the first national cover-story in favor of the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in 1989 – strongly criticized Eich's resignation in a April 3 post.
“Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks?” he wrote, adding that “The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.”
“If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out,” Sullivan noted.
“If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”
As co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich was appointed as the company's Chief Executive Officer just last month, but has stepped down after his 2008 personal donation of $1,000 to support California’s Proposition 8 – which opposed the legalization of gay “marriage” – came under fire by some within the LGBT community.
According to USA Today, online dating site OKCupid even urged a boycott of the search engine, calling on Firefox users to change their browser in protest to Eich's appointment.
The newspaper also reports that last week Eich attempted to dispel the concerns erupting over the web and social media by writing in a March 26 blog post that “I can only ask for your support to have the time to 'show, not tell;' and in the meantime, express my sorrow at having caused pain.”
“I am committed,” he wrote, “to ensuring that Mozilla is, and will remain, a place that includes and supports everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, economic status or religion.”
However, the public apology was not enough to satisfy those criticizing Eich's stance in support of traditional marriage, and many are claiming that his move to resign was unfair and pushed by same-sex “marriage” advocates.
In a statement Thursday, Mozilla's executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker insisted that Eich “made this decision for Mozilla and our community.”
The Washington Examiner reflected in an April 3 piece, however, that Eich “resigned under pressure after gay rights activists demanded that he step down or recant his support of traditional marriage laws.”
Political scholar and author Ryan T. Anderson also decried the decision in an April 3 article published in The Foundry, noting that “the outrageous treatment of Eich is the result of one private, personal campaign contribution to support marriage as a male-female union.”
It is, he observed, “a view affirmed at the time by President Barack Obama, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, and countless other prominent officials. After all, Prop 8 passed with the support of 7 million California voters.”
Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in November 2008 supporting the traditional definition of marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling.
Ultimately the proposition was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010, although the ruling was not official confirmed until June 26, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed proponents' appeals based on lack of legal standing.
Oh I already left them my comment. Firefox is the only browser I have really ever used. IE pretty much SUCKS, never liked it, never use it unless its absolutely necessary. Chrome is OK, I am still getting used to it, just not liking the tab thing, its small and I dont know how to make it larger. With Firefox I had everything set up for my liking so this will take some time. Will Mozilla ever grow a brain and realize what they did was wrong, I doubt it..the homo community has too much power, for only 3 percent of the population, they control everything, the media, the entertainment industry..you dare speak out about them or give to an organization that disapproves of them and you get harassed and fired. Notice how these same groups never went after Obama, after all til 2012 he held the same beliefs, til he needed votes of course
“Please provide evidence to support your claim about Bush Sr.”
Stick it your ear, neo-con troll.
“And then please also state your opinion of Carter for giving away the Panama Canal,”
What the hell does that have do with anything?
I’m not about top squat and shit to please you.
“Damn..so what your saying is I went from bad to worse..what other browser do you suggest?”
I switched to Opera and added on Ghostery to block ads. So far so good. Fast with no interruptions.
Enjoy your kool-aid, obamanation fanatic.
The “AdBlocker” add-on is very good as well, luv. Give it a try, why don’t you? *smile*
Fantastic insults. Thanks.
Will check it out..can you make the tabs larger because so far with Chrome not having much luck and can I transfer my bookmarked web sites to Opera
Done
That's interesting. Let's see if he stands by this, since his homosexual brethren have been doing just this for the past few years. They've tasted victory, and want to spike the ball.
Anyone know of a conservative web browser?
Great link, thanks very much. Even if you don’t follow through, just the number of page hits on how to uninstall should let them know just how unhappy people are over this. I’d like to include this link from a post by MNDude
https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/
The page is on fire and needs to remain so. Let’s show them that we have some clout too, just like we did with
Chick-Fil-A and Duck Dynasty.
I switched to Opera and added on Ghostery to block ads.”
Can you use Ad Aware with Opera?
I use Waterfox. I have tried CyberFox, and it didn’t make me happy.
I have not used IE since version 6.
I attempted to use the new and latest Opera, downloaded from Major Geeks, and there are OTHER PROGRAMS I CANNOT GET OFF MY MACHINE!!!!! They were imbedded in the installation process, and were unannounced, and were nopt selectable to ignore, during the process, so the heck with Opera.
Apple Safari, is, well, Apple. Not for me.
I have been against Google from its inception, in the ‘90’s, so no to Google Chrome.
I’ve been trying Opera and so far it’s pretty good.
Yeah Im on it right now but two things..how do I import my bookmarks from firefox(Or even from Chrome) and how do I set my homepage to something else..right now its on something called speeddial
Use AdBlocker or AdBlocker Plus, along with Ghostery, and you will not be disappointed.
I’ll try to help but I’m doing this from memory and not great at explaining things.
Download a bookmark extension for Opera. I used Bookmarks Manager.
Export your bookmarks from Firefox to html. To do this, open your bookmarks menu (show all bookmarks) and there’ll be an option to export to html in there somewhere.
Go back to Opera and using Bookmarks Manager, there’ll be an option to import bookmarks. Choose the file you saved from your Firefox export.
That should do it. I hope. ;-)
F5 to refresh browser ;^)
Before uninstalling Firefox, remember to first export/save your bookmarks.
Click at the base of the TAB border (bottom).. you should be able to drag to the size you want.. I am also experimenting with it ;^)
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