[p-e-w]

Reading that tweet makes me cringe.

"It's ok to lose your job if you post a personal opinion in your personal time on your personal blog."

That sounds like something a Soviet dissident might say into the cameras, while some state-employed thug is holding a gun to their spouse's head just out of view.

[aqme28]

I see it as someone making a statement that he knows will get him in trouble, but he feels like it's a moral imperative. I really don't see how you read it another way.

[zogrodea]

I think so too. His courage reminds of Luther's, standing for his pro-human principles whatever the consequences.

"I cannot recant and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise."