The Thought Police Strike Again

Again, political correctness rears its ugly head. The CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, just resigned after essentially being bullied into it.  What did he do, you ask? Six years ago, he supported Prop 8 in California, by way of a donation (Prop 8 was an anti-gay marriage proposition on the ballot). But the gay activists would have none of this. When this 'horror' was recently leaked, some employees of Mozilla decided it was more important to sacrifice liberty for political correctness. It didn't matter that his belief in traditional marriage wasn't, in any way, imposed on any employee or subscriber; he was not in lockstep with the thinking on the Left, and for that, he should be punished. So, they (some employees and board members) forced him to step down. He was not only the CEO of Mozilla Firefox, but one of its founders.

This is just another in a long string of oppressive and intolerant behavior coming from the radical Left. But, we cannot let the Left dictate to us what we are to think, what we are to believe, or how we exercise our First Amendment right to free speech. This is not a debate about gay marriage, or anything else. It is a debate about freedom. Freedom to think and express those thoughts, whether in writing, speaking or in supporting causes we believe in. It's about the right to keep your job because you have an opinion that may be politically incorrect (and how ironic that standing up for traditional marriage is looked upon as radical now). We must not let the tyrants have their way or we will lose our liberty. Today it is about one topic. Tomorrow it will be another topic. The only real issue is, will we have the freedom to express our beliefs without the 'thought police' controlling them? There should be no victories here for the Left.  Fascism is never correct. I, for one, have dropped Mozilla Firefox as my internet browser. Mozilla should not ever think they can control anybody's First Amendment rights.

UPDATE: As it happens, the CEO of OKCupid, who started this controversy by recommending that his customers not use Mozilla software to access their website and brought Eich's opinions to light, actually donated money himself (!) in 2004 to a Congressman who voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The hypocrisy is never-ending.

Just as an aside, it didn't seem to matter to the Left that in 2008 their beloved leader Barack Obama was a supporter of traditional marriage.

To understand how political correctness has its roots in Marxism, go to the following links:
political correctness defined, see: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/pc.htm
or origins of, see:  http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html