Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by notdonspaulding on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:57AM (#7532246)

Brendan Eich gave $1000 to support the following text to be amended to the CA constitution:

    Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

You take that to mean he supported this being amended to the constitution:

     Gay people are inferior and not deserving of full civil rights.

Which is a wonderfully built straw man, but not at all likely to be an idea that Eich would ever espouse. I don't know Eich, but his public record doesn't seem to support the supposition that he thinks anyone is inferior or that anyone should be denied civil rights.

If you really want to attack his ideas, attack their best interpretation, not their worst.

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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by wpietri on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:16PM (#7532391)

The goal and practical effect of Prop 8 was to keep gay people from equal treatment under the law. In particular, to strip them of the ability to marry.

We have no idea what Eich's ideas are, because he has refused to say. But I can and will judge him by his actions. And no, I don't believe that's a straw man. I don't believe it's possible to have a rational and consistent view that includes both the 14th amendment (explicitly naming equality before the law as a civil right) and using the power of the law to keep gay couples from marrying like any other couple.

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