| > Your definition of "civil" and mine are not the same. I find it intensely uncivil to try to strip marriage rights from multiple friends of mine. I would agree if Eich were still doing this, but that was a long time ago. Like I said, I feel like people were punishing him for past wrongs that indicate a "wrong opinion" rather than trying to right current wrongs. > You can't choose to be Not Black. You can't choose to be Not Gender Dysphoric. You can choose to be Not Bigot. Can you? I didn't choose to think homosexuality is OK. It's just the way I feel. I don't think I could possibly choose to believe homosexuality is wrong — that's just not compatible with my morality. Are you really capable of arbitrarily choosing to believe things? Unless you're talking about actions. In which case it seems to me that Eich has chosen to be Not Bigot for over half a decade. > Have you looked at his donation records? He has a pattern of backing politicians who are notable in their "culture war" self-presentation, who make a point of speaking about how terrible homosexuals are. Pat Buchanan. Thomas McClintock. Linda Smith. Proposition 8. Most of those were so long ago that I wasn't even old enough to vote. McClintock is the only one he's backed in the past decade AFAIK, and to the best of my recollection McClintock tends to focus on financial issues. (McClintock is against gay marriage, but I don't remember it ever being a focus for him. All of the McClintock supporters I know like him for his fiscal policy.) |