In the midst of the chatter for
‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ America’s gay rights activists are warning: If you
don’t support gay marriage, you don’t deserve a job.
Brendan Eich, the former chief
executive officer at Mozilla – the technology
group that gave us the Firefox Web
browser – resigned under a firestorm of controversy after it was revealed he
had donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 (a ballot
initiative that protected traditional marriage). Once his donation was revealed, supporters of
gay marriage launched all-out war.
The Wall Street Journal reported that OKCupid, the popular online dating website, asked its followers to
stop using Firefox. According to The New York Times, OKCupid
posted a letter denouncing the Mozilla
CEO, reporting – “Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame
and frustration are our enemies and we wish them nothing but failure.” And the wireless company Credo Mobile gathered more than 50,000 signatures on a petition
calling for Eich to resign.
Eich won’t say he was forced to
resign, but based on the company’s press release, it’s safe to say his days
were numbered. “Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and,
this past week, we didn’t live up to it,” Mozilla
Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker wrote in a statement. “We know why people are hurt and angry, and
they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves.” She went on to opine about freedom
of speech and equality. In her
estimation, one trumps the other. “Equality
is necessary for meaningful speech,” she wrote. “And you need free speech to fight for
equality. Figuring out how to stand for
both at the same time can be hard.”
Are there not rational and
reasonable individuals within the gay rights community who understand the
dangers of muzzling free speech and expression? It appears that the voices that are winning
the day are those who believe gay rights trump everyone else’s rights.
Evidently, the left does not believe
people who oppose gay marriage should be allowed to engage in the democratic
process. They have a proven track record
of intimidating and bullying those who do.
Just ask Angela McCaskill, the chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University. She was suspended after she signed a petition
in her church to put a gay marriage referendum on the ballot in Maryland. Just ask Scott Eckern, the former artistic
director of California Musical Theatre.
He resigned under pressure after he gave
money to support Prop 8. Just ask our
nation’s top military officials. They
were called into President Obama’s office and told that if they could not
support “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” they should resign their commissions. “We were called into the Oval Office and
President Obama looked at all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is
what I want to do,’” said Coast Guard Adm. Robert Papp in remarks reported by Buzzfeed.
Todd Starnes of Fox News said it well – “The road to ‘political correctness’ is
littered with the bodies of folks like Brendan Eich sideswiped by the tolerance
and diversity bus.” He goes on to ask,
“Why not demand that those who oppose gay marriage relinquish the right to own
property? Why not take away their right
to vote? Why not take away their
children? Why not just throw them in
jail? Why not force them to work in
chain gangs? Why not call for public
floggings? Or better yet, let’s just
strap them down on gurneys, stick a needle in their arm and rid the world of
these intolerant anti-gay bigots once and for all.”
Definition: tol-er-ance
(tŏl’ǝr-ǝns) n. is being willing to put
up with, endure, bear with those whose views or lifestyles are different from
others’ views without agreeing with them.
Given this definition, it’s clear
that those who cry the loudest for ‘tolerance’ are the most ‘intolerant.’
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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