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This is stupid, he might not be the most charismatic leaders but he is genuine leader for organization like Mozilla, and other causes what he supports in his free time, I personally don't care, as it is not relevant.

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And you who downvote should go out of the closet, it is not everything about gay rights, there is life beyond that

"there is life beyond that", yeah and i would love to live it with the same rights as you. Cheers

and this is excellent example of tolerance you desire :)

That is horseshit. When somebody works to take away your civil rights, a desire for tolerance does not require you to politely say, "Oh, gosh, you go on ahead and oppress us then." An open mind isn't an empty mind.

When people who claim to promote tolerance end up acting in an intolerant manner, it hurts their credibility. It really doesn't matter what their cause may be. Contradiction and hypocrisy generally don't make situations better.

Could you spell out your perceived contradiction? As far as I have seen, the perception of contradiction happens only with people who don't find them credible to begin with.

Personally, I don't see it as hypocrisy. In the case of those opposed to Prop 8, people aren't arguing for some generic tolerance, they're arguing for civil rights, including equality before the law. Most of the gay people I've talked to figure the prejudiced are going to keep on with their hating; they just don't want that bigotry enshrined in law.

How is a guy who created javascript singlehandedly that powers the web working to take away your freedom :)

Yeah, the language that doesn't know how to treat equality properly, how ironic.

I'm out of the closet already, thanks.

Also, FYI, trying to insult gay-rights fans with "you're gay" doesn't really work.

I want to clarify my comment further, I am not aware that he did anything else but provide donation and I am absulutely for freedom of opinion and speech. To me this is not relevant enough nor as important as Mozilla and it's role in open source.

I am also for freedom of speech, but part of that is freedom to meet speech with speech of my own (and for others to do the same with regard to my speech).

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