When former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned last year over his $1,000 donation to Prop 8, here's some of what NOM had to say about it.
From April 4, 2014:
NOM called the dismissal of Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla a "McCarthyesque witch hunt" that reflects the desire of gay rights activists to punish anyone in society who fails to support their agenda of redefining marriage.From three hours and five minutes later:
[Marriage equality supporters'] actions escalate a pattern of behavior that makes it crystal clear that the mask is off any pretense of tolerance for different opinions on marriage. The message is clear: no matter your talents, accomplishments and capabilities, opposition to 'gay marriage' utterly disqualifies you from corporate leadership and employment, and even meaningful participation in civil society.From April 10:
In 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to the campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California and protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman. For that, he's been convicted of an imagined hate crime by the radical homosexual activist community.From April 17:We must stand up to this outrageous assault on not just our values — but on the fundamental principles of free speech and our very democratic process! We cannot let a fringe group of radicals create an environment that will prohibit citizens from engaging in their right to enter the political arena without fear of reprisals!
Can you envision a future in which your support of marriage deprives you of your job...of your business...of your liberty?From August 6:I can. Because, quite frankly, we're already seeing it...all over the country!
Mozilla's forcing CEO Brendan Eich to resign over a political contribution he made six years ago certainly brings to the fore the need to stand up to these bullies.
So, what can be done about it? Many things — but it all boils down to this: mobilize the American people to defend God's truth about marriage and stand up to the radical extremists that want to redefine marriage, marginalize its supporters and stifle free speech and the democratic process!
The ousting of Brenden Eich from Mozilla and the attempts by Chase Bank to ID employees based on whether they are "an ally of the LGBT community" were two powerful and extreme examples of efforts to marginalize and punish people who believe in a biblical or traditional view of sexual morality.When it happened, I defended how things played out. I want to clarify exactly where I stand on what happened and why I defended, and continue to defend, what happened. I have no problem with what happened, because what happened was that Mozilla's own customers were angry at Mozilla for appointing a man to the position of CEO that they did not like. The anger that his appointment to CEO bred from Mozilla's own customers meant that he could not be an effective leader. Mozilla was being harmed by his appointment. So he resigned. That's his bad luck. However, I wrote at the time, and I still believe, that he should not be fired (although, of course, that's not what happened). Implicitly, this extends to me disagreeing with calls for him to be fired, including boycotts of Mozilla until he leaves.
One would assume from NOM's posts about what happened is that NOM opposes people losing their jobs over their political beliefs or activities, but one would be wrong. NOM hasn't learnt that when trying to distinguish two similar situations so you can act in one way in one situation and act in another in the other, you cannot distinguish the two situations over the two different political positions involved and not be a hypocrite.
During the controversy over Indiana's RFRA, then-Angie's List CEO Bill Oesterie put expansion plans in the state on hold as a protest against the law. Now, he has resigned. I don't know if the two are related. But NOM is not just claiming that they are related. They're celebrating it:
Less than a month after we launched our Dump Angie initiative, 2,290 former Angie's List members have canceled their accounts following the company's attack on the rights of Christians and other faiths, and an additional 4,938 have written the company with their disapproval, saying they would not be using Angie's List in the future. Thank you to all who have made the Dump Angie pledge!And just to show that they truly are committed to seeing political opponents lose their jobs:In addition to thousands of marriage supporters taking action, now a second victory has emerged from our Dump Angie petition: Bill Oesterie has “surprised” everyone by voluntarily stepping down from his position as CEO of the company. Having co-founded the subscription service in 1995, Oesterie is leaving at one of the company’s rockiest times, due to its decision to withhold business from Indiana after the state passed a bill protecting the religious freedom rights of its citizens.
Whether Oesterie or the media will admit it, it was the men and women who believe in their religious freedom rights who showed Oesterie the real effects of attacking the first amendment. Oesterie is one of many who have learned the hard way that marriage defenders are not submissive: they are refusing to compromise on something as important as marriage and family.By "refusing to compromise", they mean "we will seek to run you out of your job if you don't agree with our politics, and celebrate when we succeed".This is a great victory for religious freedom, and there are many more to come!
How the hell can NOM seriously claim to accuse us of being intolerant? As I've said, the difference between this case and the Mozilla case is that (if he did resign because of a campaign by conservative Christians) Eich resigned because he was unpopular and polarizing, and his appointment was harming Mozilla. If what NOM is claiming happened did happen, then it means that Oesterie was run out of his job by a campaign by conservative Christians seeking just that.
The same people that claim that we are the bullying, intolerant ones.
Pot, meet kettle.