I'm really concerned about what happened to Brendan Eich last week.
As you have probably heard, he was hounded out of his job as CEO of the Mozilla Foundation by gays and their allies who were upset that he donated a fairly large sum of money to support the passage of California Proposition 8, a bill that dissolved the unions of thousands of legally-married LGBT Californians and constitutionally prohibited marriage equality in that state.
When Mr. Eich was named CEO, first Mozilla employees and then others in Silicon Valley began voicing their opposition to him taking this role. LGBT Mozilla employees and their allies did not want a known supporter of anti-gay laws to be in a hire-or-fire position over them. Users of Mozilla products -- particularly Firefox -- were uncomfortable with the idea that they might appear to be supporting Eich and threatened to discontinue using the products.
It all just went downhill from there, until, presumably, Eich felt like his ability to do a good job as Mozilla CEO was too damaged and he stepped down.
The problem that I have here is with the idea that that gays and their allies can just voice their opinions, advocate for their cause and mobilize other people to protect themselves and their families. This has really just gone way over the line and is going to hurt them in the end.
The media is picking up on this and it really looks bad.
It is discrimination and it stifles debate.