Hi Jon, thanks for your supportive message.
(Note that, while I am an employee of the Mozilla Corporation, the views expressed here are entirely my own.) On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:31 AM, tilson jonathan <[email protected]>wrote: > I am concerned that one of your senior executives is now under pressure > from the gay rights > rabble rousers because he financially supported a pro traditional marriage > group in California. > Its bad enough that he has already had to express any form of apology for > exercising his own freedom of conscience. > Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of conscience. > Note that freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism or freedom from negative repercussions. The people calling for Brendan's resignation or a boycott of Mozilla do nothing more than to exercise their freedom of speech. I personally don't agree with a lot of what they're saying, just as I don't agree with the act of speech that Brendan performed when he supported Prop 8. Not only can't Mozilla do anything about these acts of speech - it goes to the very core of what we as an organization stand for to not ever want to. > > It would be intolerable if organizations such as Mozilla bowed to pressure > from fringe but vocal pressure groups like this. The supposed "equality" > agenda is fast becoming a blight on western society. It isn't about > equality at all - its about the removal of freedom to disagree with a point > of view. > As a matter of official policy, Mozilla as an organisation explicitly disagrees with this point of view: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/03/29/on-mozillas-support-for-marriage-equality/ > > I hope the current campaign to remove Firefox isn't successful and I will > be keeping my support for now as long as this whole issue goes away and a > strong message of freedom of conscience and expression is sent out by the > Mozilla board and you publicly refuse to be hounded by the gay rights lobby > in this way. > Thanks again - I obviously share your hope that calls for a boycott of Firefox won't be successful. thanks, till _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
