Differing opinions make you evil? OKCupid and Mozilla employees lash out at Mozilla CEO

[Ronin13]

Popular dating site OkCupid is urging its users to boycott Mozilla, a software collective, over its new CEO’s past support for traditional marriage.Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Mozilla — and the inventor of Javascript programming language — is under fire for a $1,000 donation he made in support of California’s Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot proposition defining marriage as being between one man and one woman, NPR reported.
While Eich’s donation made headlines and then fizzled back in 2012, his recent CEO appointment brought it back to the forefront, creating debate among Mozilla employees.

That debate, though, has now extended well beyond the company’s walls, with OkCupid, an outside entity, blocking direct access to its dating portal to any user coming through Firefox, Mozilla’s free web browser.
Upon reaching the site, Firefox users are greeted with a letter that takes aim at Eich’s stance on same-sex marriage and urges Firefox users to seek another browser.
“Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples,” the letter reads. “We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.”
OkCupid goes on to say that, though politics aren’t normally “the business of a website,” it believes in the importance of bringing people together, regardless of sexuality.
“If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal,” it reads. “Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company.”
Holding little back, the dating site continued, “Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.”

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So basically the employees of Mozilla want the guy to lose his job because of his personal beliefs? Real tolerant. Then let's go further and let users of the browser know that a dating site despises the man... Whatever happened to dealing with differing views like a goddamned adult? Instead people want to bitch and moan and call for the CEO of the company they work for to be fired. So the left is all about tolerance, unless you disagree with them. Got it. Anyone else sick of this? I'm not saying that I oppose any form of relationship, and not wanting this to turn into a debate on gay marriage, but more about the simple question "Why can't people just allow there to be differing opinions and leave it at that?"

[O2HeN2]

...I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I hate people like that!

-- Tom Lehrer

[RblDiver]

How tolerant of them indeed. Guess I'll remember to avoid them.

[Ridge]

Whatever happened to dealing with differing views like a goddamned adult?

I guess we could ask the CEO of Mozilla?

[Ronin13]

I guess we could ask the CEO of Mozilla?

True, the door swings both ways- but that's a voter initiative (that passed by the way), for an individual state. Much like 64 here in CO... So he donated in support of that, let's say if I donated money to defeating the last defeated tax increase voter initiative, would that justify people who supported the tax increase to be calling for me to be fired (if I were CEO of something)?

[Ridge]

True, the door swings both ways- but that's a voter initiative (that passed by the way), for an individual state. Much like 64 here in CO... So he donated in support of that, let's say if I donated money to defeating the last defeated tax increase voter initiative, would that justify people who supported the tax increase to be calling for me to be fired (if I were CEO of something)?

Everyone has the right to their beliefs, and everyone else has the right to ask you be held to answer for those. Especially if it comes to something like civil rights.

[Ronin13]

Everyone has the right to their beliefs, and everyone else has the right to ask you be held to answer for those. Especially if it comes to something like civil rights.

True- but calling for the guy to be fired for his beliefs? "So-and-so is an atheist, he should be fired from his job at XYZ retail store because I don't like how he believes." Sounds almost un-American to me.

[Ridge]

True- but calling for the guy to be fired for his beliefs? "So-and-so is an atheist, he should be fired from his job at XYZ retail store because I don't like how he believes." Sounds almost un-American to me.

Again, everyone can have an opinion. It's going to be up to the shareholders to make the decision.

As for OkCupid, they can certainly ask users to not use Mozilla's products, just like how someone on these forums would suggest not using such-and-such retailer because reasons.

[Ronin13]

Again, everyone can have an opinion. It's going to be up to the shareholders to make the decision.

As for OkCupid, they can certainly ask users to not use Mozilla's products, just like how someone on these forums would suggest not using such-and-such retailer because reasons.

But the reasons behind not owning a hi-point are quite valid!

[Ridge]

But the reasons behind not owning a hi-point are quite valid!

I enjoyed mine. If they took something like Glock mags, I'd buy another in a heartbeat.