[badman_ting]

If the community of which Mozilla is a part consisted of people who so disagreed with the action of voting for Obama, then, sure.

We play the "freedom" game in lots of cases. You can be racist, you are technically free to act in racist ways in public, but the consequence of such behavior is that most people will choose not to associate with you. You will lose opportunities to do business, to socialize in most cases, and more. So, are you free to be racist? Not really, not if you want to be part of the society, even though the technical answer is yes.

So, the larger society does not "tolerate" racism. And the community of which Mozilla is a part does not "tolerate" the CEO being part of a movement to prevent gays marrying. I don't consider either to be a tragedy. This is about what groups of people will allow, and what they won't.