A donation to a Christian charity would have been fine. There are thousands of them in the US and around the world.
No, Eich specifically made a donation to a political campaign for CA's Prop 8 that used blood-libel-level lies to cast homosexuals as pedophiles and sexual predators and use that as a justification to deny them the right to marry.
And this was the state of the Prop 8 campaign at the time he made the donation. He knew what they were about, and he donated to them anyway.
Please note that Prop 8 was actually supported by voters. So if supporting Prop 8 is reason for firing, more than half of voters of California should lose their jobs.
I think that's unfair, and suspect that witch hunt campaign was probably initiated because of some kind of power games inside Mozilla.
Also, please make note that there is zero evidence of any LBGT Mozilla employee was discriminated by Brendan Eich or even evidences of him discussing his stance on homosexual marriages at work.
He was literally bullied and fired for his private life facts: fact that he privately supported same political stance than majority of California's voters.
Please note that Prop 8 supporters spent many tens of millions of dollars lying about gays to get people to vote for Prop 8.
They also lied about what the impact of Prop 8 would be.
Also note that one of the biggest such spenders, the Mormon Church, formally apologized for its role in the Prop 8 campaign after they got to be in the receiving end of the lies during Romney's first presidential campaign.
Also, I'm living in Russia, and there is common knowledge that we have a lot of problems with democratic procedures here. I don't say that someone could not be fired for his voting or donating for opposition here, it definitely can happen. But it will probably cause media scandal, not media support
So Mozilla thinks that laws proposed to voters are so immoral that we should purge people over them.
“He had it coming to him”, they’ll say, justifying the purge, for defending that a child need two parents of different sex because kids are enriched by both viewpoints, which is as perfectly valid as an opinion as saying that speech should be censored aggressively when not agreeing with other viewpoints. Both are opinionated opinions. Only one is not democratic. And that’s a trend across a specific sprout of unicorns and SV companies.
The Silicon Valley TV show even realized it and made an episode about the hero outing a “gay Christian”, until the episode turns into understanding that the problem isn’t that he outed a gay, but a Christian, which is something that apparently the Silicon Valley (and the HQ of Mozilla in Australia for that matters), aren’t tolerant with.
I’m for democracy. Mozilla isn’t supporting equal democracy... for Christians. In my opinion it is more complex than that, Mozilla probably have little opinions about this problem but buckles under specific powerful group pressures and agrees to implement their purge, without due process and fair trial. Instead it’s replaced with “He had it coming”, which reminds me of the darkest ages of the last century. Due process for every accusation is an essential pillar of democracy, and Mozilla hasn’t amended it manners to support this principle.
> So Mozilla thinks that laws proposed to voters are so immoral that we should purge people over them.
He wasn't purged by Mozilla, he quit. He did quit because of the pressure put on him because of his donation but the idea that he was purged by Mozilla is at least an exaggeration if not an outright lie.
> “He had it coming to him”, they’ll say, justifying the purge, for defending that a child need two parents of different sex because kids are enriched by both viewpoints, which is as perfectly valid as an opinion as saying that speech should be censored aggressively when not agreeing with other viewpoints.
Bad ideas should be purged. Don't you agree with that?
> I’m for democracy. Mozilla isn’t supporting equal democracy... for Christians.
How so?
> In my opinion it is more complex than that, Mozilla probably have little opinions about this problem but buckles under specific powerful group pressures and agrees to implement their purge, without due process and fair trial.
The man quit... should have Mozilla rejected his resignation and forced him to participate in some kind of "due process"? What do you have in mind for this process?
No, Eich specifically made a donation to a political campaign for CA's Prop 8 that used blood-libel-level lies to cast homosexuals as pedophiles and sexual predators and use that as a justification to deny them the right to marry.
And this was the state of the Prop 8 campaign at the time he made the donation. He knew what they were about, and he donated to them anyway.
So, yeah, he had it coming to him.
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