rabbitcaebannog
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That's fair. I'm all for freedom. I'd love to see you getting fired for being a loudmouth woman.
So "traditional marriage" (i.e. marriage between a man and a woman) is on the "target list" now?
Absolutely. And since we agree that he did nothing illegal, and the employees should have the right to free speech, I think all of the supporters of traditional marriage should now have the same right. And I'm sure I'll see all of you come to the defense of the companies being boycotted when they decide to pressure employees who donated to causes that opposed Prop 8 to resign.
If people who say they support traditional marriage are being called bigots now, yes Kobie, they are being targeted.
Nobody said Hobby Lobby can't have a religion. What they can't do is use their religion to withhold medical services from their employees.
We've been over what I meant by that. "Supporting traditional marriage," in the colloquial sense, is a nice way of saying "I'm against gay marriage."
It's now come down to - don't ever donate to a political cause or candidate, because it offends the LGBT community, all hell will break loose. I wonder where this stops?
Meh, I actually hope this guy walked away with a gigantic severance package.
Right, it's called vindictive to not shop at a place whose CEO promotes and bankrolls something your against:roll: Last time I checked, people in the US have that right. If the company or the CEO doesn't like it, tough cookies.
So "traditional marriage" (i.e. marriage between a man and a woman) is on the "target list" now?
They always have had that same right.
Boycotts are pretty much the only exercise in free speech that the common person has that can have any measurable effect. If people want to boycott gay-friendly businesses, have at it. We'll see how that goes.
He very well might have. It is my understanding that he was one of the founders of Mozilla. Inventor and developer of Javascript which is now in every single browser. So a technical web pioneer of high regard and success. Too bad for Mozilla to have lost him and his abilities, and it's not like Mozilla was a place where LGBT was penalized. Equal benefit for SS partners, and equal consideration for promotion, from what I understand.
So if he did nothing illegal, what business is it of anyone?
And if corporations are people made up of the personal views of the people, then why are all of the Liberals attacking Hobby Lobby?
The Mozilla employees must be either underworked or radical. There is no evidence whatsoever that Eich was anything but a good manager, and never did anything during his tenure at Mozilla that could be considered discrininatory towards gays. If they did this, then they are nothing but a lynch mob IMO, going after a man because of what he did in his personal life.
Only the person who took the physical beating was being punished for being gay. The CEO is being punished for being a bigot. Big difference. People have a right to speak out against such bigotry.
They're riding high on moral righteousness, like Crusaders chopping off the heads of infidels. The blood lust they're feeling from getting a scalp and ruining a man's career has them amped up.
What they don't realize is that lessons are being learned.
I guess it'll be tough cookies as well when political correctness turns on your previous actions and positions as well then.
Boycotts are for sissies.
I want to see a company force out an executive who supports gay marriage through political donations. Nobody can complain about it - not even the love pimpers at the Cupid site. It wouldn't be illegal. And it would be their right. Correct?
By donating, he put his beliefs in the public square.
"All of the Liberals" are attacking Hobby Lobby? That's funny, I'm a liberal and I haven't said a word about Hobby Lobby until this thread (and I didn't bring it up). Do we seriously not see the difference between two unrelated cases?
The Mozilla case is about a company divesting itself from what it sees as a potential liability due to the (overzealous) backlash his employment caused. The Hobby Lobby case is about a company attempting to get out of covering medical services in its insurance policies.
I said earlier that I think this is overreach by the Anti-Eich Brigade.
5 Corporations That Should Be Blacklisted By Conservatives - John Hawkins - Page 1
Not all conservatives agree.
It would be their right; whether it's a smart business decision remains to be seen.
Now here is an important lie from the left. He's a "bigot" because he supports traditional marriage. No debate or disagreement allowed. No respect for your religion. In that case, anyone that opposes traditional marriage is also a bigot, as they refuse to accept the views of others that are not like their own.
If Mozilla was doing anything to oppress or otherwise hurt their LGBT employees, it would have come out. They did everything right. I guess it wasn't good enough for the employees. They wanted to make some kind of statement with all this. Strange.
Yep. IRS! LOL.
So you support the right of Hobby Lobby, Chik Fil-A, Contran, or any Christian-founded company getting the history of all political contributions made by all of their employees, and forcing out those who made political contributions to pro-gay causes.
Now here is an important lie from the left. He's a "bigot" because he supports traditional marriage. No debate or disagreement allowed. No respect for your religion. In that case, anyone that opposes traditional marriage is also a bigot, as they refuse to accept the views of others that are not like their own.
Traditional marriage is the new bigotry.
I could very easily be seen as a threat for speaking against policy.
No. Not so strange. Bigoted and overzealous. Same as those they say, or were, oppressing them. Although much of that has already fallen to the way side, but never mind that, as long as they can extract their pound of flesh for the sins of years past, they feel totally justified and moral. Now that IS strange, that they can't see how closely similar they are to what they say they hate.
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