>spent his personal money (...) THAT IS "bringing it in the office"

This must be some novel notion of "bringing it in the office"...

Note the weasel phrasing "so that his gay and lesbian employees" -- to imply that he did it specifically to target his employees.

If he gave money in favor of e.g. stricter weed laws, would he have done it to target his "weed using employees" or generally society's use of weed?

That is also true of any CEO supporting gun control, and yet the number of CEOs I have seen driven from their jobs for that thoughtcrime is zero.

Probably because it hasn't affected their ability to lead successfully. Eich saw he wasn't going to be effective there, and stepped down.

It was 12 years ago.

What does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

I find the snark response more "non sequitur" than the grantparent's comment, which at least makes a point.

(The point of the phrase "It was 12 years ago" being that:

(a) people change with time

(b) we should not hold things people did long ago against them forever

And thus, that a reaction "but he did X bad thing" to the suggestion of bringing Brendan back is not relevant anymore...

Eich stands by his actions. Or he did until recently.

Which is totally fine.