In the summer of 2008 a gay friend of mine, who was active in Democratic politics, told me she did not expect Barack Obama to come out in favor of gay marriage because it could blow his chances of winning the White House. He did not favor gay marriage until the end of 2010. The left did not brand him as a big for opposing gay marriage until 2011. Yet Brendan Eich lost his job as CEO of Mozilla for donating $1000 in 2008 in support of California Prop 108 opposing gay marriage.
This is an open and shut case of close-minded bigotry and intolerance–the opposite of the intellectual “diversity” liberals claim to love. Historians decry McCartheyism of the 1950s and the “black lists” of suspected communists who could not get jobs in Hollywood. This situation is identical. Eich was blacklisted for having politically incorrect views on gay marriage. Gay pundit Andrew Sullivan correctly calls this an outrage, which is no more defensible than job discrimination against gay people. I will be interested to see how many other liberals join him in denouncing Silicon Valley’s black list.
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