Yeah, but that violates the first amendment or freedom or something or whatever.

5/15/2014 8:01:10 PM

^^^
Lol

He's 82 though, he'll be dead soon.

5/15/2014 8:56:51 PM

In the mean time he'll continue to serve on the police commission.



Maybe this should be in the people don't understand thread.

5/15/2014 11:10:38 PM

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"Mozilla was forced to make a business decision, and they decided the risk of keeping a CEO on who might hinder their future sales was higher than the potential reward of keeping him on."

Let's see what Mozilla itself had to say: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/

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"1. Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan declined that offer. The Board respects his decision. ... Brendan himself said: “I have decided to resign as CEO effective April 3rd, and leave Mozilla. Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next.” Brendan Eich also blogged on this topic. ... Q: Was Brendan Eich forced out by employee pressure? A: No. Mozilla employees expressed a wide range of views on Brendan’s appointment as CEO: the majority of them positive and in support of his leadership, or expressing disappointment in Brendan’s support of Proposition 8 but that they nonetheless felt he would be a good leader for Mozilla. A small number (fewer than 10) called for his resignation, none of whom reported to Brendan directly. However media coverage focused disproportionately on the small number of negative comments — largely ignoring the wide range of reactions across the Mozilla community."

Here's Eich's blog that Mozilla referred to: https://brendaneich.com/2014/04/the-next-mission/
I for one hope Eich comes back to Mozilla or at least continues to work on the foundation of the Web; notably, although he never said, even in response to direct questioning, that he thinks homosexuality is okay, he also said he had no plans to mess with the non-discrimination policy at Mozilla, which means he wasn't willing to directly harm people by imposing his views on them.


As for Don Sterling, the more shocking thing is that he regularly refused to allow non-Koreans to rent his apartments, in clear violation of fair-housing laws, and he ended up making a huge settlement with the FHA about it and that didn't garner wide media attention or calls for his removal from the NBA, instead it was something more personally reprehensible.

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Also, because it wasn't clearly articulated earlier ITT, the reason Michael Sam was such a late draft pick (and was predicted likely to not get drafted at all and instead try his hand as a free agent) is that although on average he was at least as good as the average NFL prospect, he didn't fit well into any particular position (as NPR called him, a "tweener"); his open homosexuality made little difference, but it's possible (as said by Nate Silver) that the Rams, being closer to his alma mater than most other NFL teams, knew him as something more than "that openly gay tweener who made a poor pre-draft showing" and that's why they, rather than some team like the Patriots or the 49ers based in a metro highly accepting of gays, ended up picking him to fill out their team.

This is probably the most sports-related post I have ever posted or will ever post.

5/15/2014 11:40:42 PM

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"http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/05/local-town-official-academically-defends-using-a-racial-slur-to-describe-obama/370930/"

I guess you can't really speak your mind anymore.

5/16/2014 1:00:08 PM

^^ Thank you for the correction. With respect to this thread though, that changes nothing, except to even further disprove the OP's logic...I was simply replying to this:

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"Do you people agree with the ouster of the Mozilla CEO for his donation's to Prop 8?"

5/16/2014 1:09:05 PM

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