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The embattled CEO of Mozilla , the company that produces the Firefox internet browser, has stepped down after homosexual activists created a national backlash over his support for marriage. Brendan Eich bowed out as leader of the tech company after just days on the job, after LGBT activists discovered that he had donated $1,000 to California's Proposition 8 . The state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman passed the deeply liberal state in 2008 with more than seven million votes. It was struck down on procedural grounds when the state's Democratic leaders refused to defend it in court, and the Supreme Court ruled that the voters had no standing to defend the ballot initiative themselves. Eich, who developed Javascript,  donated  $1,000 to Republican presidential contender Pat Buchanan in 1991-2. He was also a member of the Ron Paul revolution , giving $2,500 to the libertarian-leaning Congressman in his 1996 and 1998

Fifteen years ago James Twitchel’s  For Shame: The Loss of Common Decency in American Culture  argued for the socially redeeming character of shame: “Shame is the basis of individual responsibility …It is where de­cency comes from…   shame inhibits behavior— that's the point. It retards action, it increases reticence, it invokes self‑censorship. Its final object is not banishment, but reintegration.” Twitchell’s book describes a past moral ethos eroded by an ideology of radical sexual freedom that shamelessly rejected the “old ways.”  In 1996 Senator Fred Thomson said of Bill Clinton: “He is a man of his times…He literally has no shame.” And Bill agreed, saying: “I do not regard this impeachment vote as some badge of shame.” But shaming has not disappeared. It is now used to punish speech   against  the new reigning orthodoxy of politically correct relativism, rather than to condemn personally reprehensible moral acts. People lose their jobs because of one misplaced word.  Pat