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by discardorama 4450 days ago
Supporting Prop 8 is not "indirectly anti-gay". It is directly anti-gay. Prop 8 has only 1 purpose: to deny gay couples the protection of marriage. On the other hand, with a candidate, one could in all honesty support a particular position (or set of positions), while being unaware of the candidate's stance on some other positions.

I was waiting for Eich to respond to the firestorm with some clarification or a public statement; he did neither other than resigning. That, to me, speaks volumes: he'd rather give up his CEO position than his anti-gay position. So it is best that he resigned and left.
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nilkn 4450 days ago
> That, to me, speaks volumes: he'd rather give up his CEO position than his anti-gay position.

That's a pretty big assumption. You don't know that at all, and you also have no idea what sort of pressure he might have faced from Mozilla's board.

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omonra 4450 days ago
"Prop 8 has only 1 purpose: to deny gay couples the protection of marriage."

I'm sure that a certain % of individuals who voted for it also supported the institution of civil unions - that would entitle gays to same rights as married couple. But these people care about the name/institution of 'marriage' maintaining its original (m+w) definition.

Therefore I personally would not rush to call support of prop 8 'anti-gay'.

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