Gay advocates target Mozilla Brendan Eich but not Barack Obama?
US President Barack Obama was not targeted like Mozilla' Brendan Eich (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “Opposing gay marriage today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan,” wrote Will Oremus , Slate’s senior tech writer in an altogether typical op-ed applauding the sacking of the “bigoted” Brendan Eich for his support of traditional marriage . “It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others.” Eich could not grovel quite enough to keep his job as CEO of Mozilla , a software enterprise best known for producing the Firefox web browser . He resigned under pressure after “marriage equality” activists revealed that Eich had donated $1,000 to the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign in California. Proposition 8, which passed with more than 52 percent of the vote, amended the California constitution to read, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in ...