LGBT Developers Boytt Firefox After Anti-Gay CEO Tak Office – ThkProgrs

Contents:

• LGBT DEVELOPERS BOYTT FIREFOX AFTER ANTI-GAY CEO TAK OFFICE
• MOZILLA BOSS BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AFTER GAY MARRIAGE STORM
• WHILE YOU WERE DEFENDG THE RIGHTS OF AN ANTI-GAY CEO, A WHOLE BUNCH OF GAY PEOPLE GOT FIRED
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• MOZILLA'S ANTI-GAY CEO HASTILY RIGNS AMID CONTROVERSY
• MOZILLA UNR FIRE FOR NEW CEO'S ANTI-GAY PAST
• FIREFOX, THE ANTI-GAY BROWSER?
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AFTER PROTTS OM GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS
• NEW MOZILLA CEO IS ALLEGEDLY ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE -- FIREFOX VELOPERS BOYTT
• MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AMID NTROVERSY SURROUNDG HIS ANTI-GAY PAST
• MOZILLA CEO RIGNS AMID NTROVERSY OVER DONATN TO ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSNMOZILLA CEO RIGNS AMID NTROVERSY OVER DONATN TO ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSN
• IF YOU’RE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE, YOU’RE A BAD CEO

LGBT DEVELOPERS BOYTT FIREFOX AFTER ANTI-GAY CEO TAK OFFICE

As a gay uple who were unable to get married California until recently, we morally nnot support a Foundatn that would not only leave someone wh hateful views power, but will give them a promotn and put them charge of the entire anizatn.

"Mr Eich has also stepped down om the board of the Mozilla Foundatn, the non-prof anisatn which owns the for-prof Mozilla ersMr Eich, who -found Mozilla and was also the creator of the JavaScript scriptg language, ma a $1, 000 (£600) donatn 2008 support of Californian anti-gay marriage law Proposn 8. Sce then, as history go, Prop 8 was overturned by the Supreme Court of the Uned Stat and once aga gay and lbian upl n aga enjoy the rights of marriage that attentn given the story of Mr.

MOZILLA BOSS BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AFTER GAY MARRIAGE STORM

Fally, was not the "gay mafia" that did the "whackg, " was employe, board members and ctomers of Mozilla that spoke out -- not a sgle LGBT that I saw, ever spoke out about the issue.

There are hundreds of stori like this every year and hundreds more that people are ashamed to tell due to rampant hatred and homophobia muni across the untry. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.

WHILE YOU WERE DEFENDG THE RIGHTS OF AN ANTI-GAY CEO, A WHOLE BUNCH OF GAY PEOPLE GOT FIRED

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. The ntroversy began when news spread that Eich had ntributed money 2008 to the California iative attemptg to ban same-sex 's views on gay marriage motivated two Mozilla velopers to boytt the pany until somethg was done.

"The moral of Eich's story is not about the "gay mafia" supprsg eedom of speech or opn, as polil mentator and same-sex marriage supporter Bill Maher surprisgly said. "What we're askg for is an apology that regniz the damage and discrimatn that that law's had for gay upl like , " said Hampton Catl, CTO of Moovweb and CEO of Rareb, which he -found wh his hband, Michael Catl.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns.

MOZILLA'S ANTI-GAY CEO HASTILY RIGNS AMID CONTROVERSY

Lively first emerged as an anti-gay activist when he beme munitns director for the Oregon Cizens Alliance, which was backg that state’s notor Measure 9 vote 1992.

MOZILLA UNR FIRE FOR NEW CEO'S ANTI-GAY PAST

The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. In a 2007 open letter to the Rsian people, he asserted that “homosexualy is a personaly disorr that volv var, often dangero sexual addictns and aggrsive, anti-social impuls. A month after Lively left the untry, a bill was troduced that lled for the ath penalty for certa homosexual acts and prison for those who fail to disclose gays’ inti.

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews. In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals.

FIREFOX, THE ANTI-GAY BROWSER?

Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn. A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi.

AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party. In the piece posted to the AFTAH webse, Lively said homosexuals are tryg to take away ee speech om all opponents of gays and to silence all relig opns on the matter.

MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AFTER PROTTS OM GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS

The AFTAH se repeats bog claims like the ia that a proposed bill California would “promote cross-drsg, sex-change operatns, bisexualy and homosexualy” to krgartners and other children. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. ” More recently, while hostg Amerin Visn’s “The Gary DeMar Show” December 2009, Joel McDurmon, the group’s rearch director, agreed that the Bible do ll for killg homosexuals.

It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.

Wh regard to that last, said: “Homosexuals have turned away om humbly worshippg the te and livg God and his transcennt moral orr orr to make an idol out of their sexual perversn and chaos. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.

NEW MOZILLA CEO IS ALLEGEDLY ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE -- FIREFOX VELOPERS BOYTT

In 2001, she hired proment anti-gay propagandists Robert Knight (now wh Coral Ridge Mistri; see below) and Peter LaBarbera (now wh Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above) to lnch CWA’s Culture and Fay Instute.

MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AMID NTROVERSY SURROUNDG HIS ANTI-GAY PAST

While at CWA, on April 12, 2007, Barber suggted agast all the evince that there were only a “miscule number” of anti-gay hate crim and most of those “may very well be rooted dulent reports.

MOZILLA CEO RIGNS AMID NTROVERSY OVER DONATN TO ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSNMOZILLA CEO RIGNS AMID NTROVERSY OVER DONATN TO ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSN

” In ments that have sce disappeared om CWA’s webse, Barber mand a feral probe of “homosexual activists” for their alleged fabritns of hate crime reports.

IF YOU’RE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE, YOU’RE A BAD CEO

CWA long relied on and displayed Knight’s articl and talkg pots, cludg claims that “homosexualy rri enormo physil and mental health risks” and “gay marriage entic children to experiment wh homosexualy.

Print Wendy Wright said this Augt that gay activists were g same-sex marriage “to doctrate children schools to reject their parents’ valu and to harass, sue and punish people who disagree. ” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance. In one recent say on the CRM webse, he argued agast allowg homosexuals to serve openly the ary, sayg that “Bible-believg Christians would quickly fd themselv unwele Barney Frank’s new pansexual, cross-drsg ary.