OKCupid Asks Firefox Users To Support LGBT Rights, Switch Browsers

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From the news post about Eich stepping down: "Mozilla supports equality for all."

There, they had a CEO whose personal believes were the polar opposite of the company philosophy and without OKCupid's stand against it they wouldn't even have found out.

Really, Mozilla should extend an official "Thank You" to OKCupid. >:D
 

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RoonMian said:
From the news post about Eich stepping down: "Mozilla supports equality for all."

There, they had a CEO whose personal believes were the polar opposite of the company philosophy and without OKCupid's stand against it they wouldn't even have found out.

Really, Mozilla should extend an official "Thank You" to OKCupid. >:D
I very well doubt the company cared about his personal beliefs, and in any proper business setting they rightly shouldn't have. The reason he stepped down was due to the public shitstorm that was starting not anything on the company's part. Especially since he likely wasn't going to enact any anti gay policies, or move business funds towards traditional marriage bs.

There is a courtesy we grant people in polite society, a separation between your personal and professional life. OKcupid violated that, by making the man's personal life a factor in his professional. Not only was it childish it makes their company look like it's run by a bunch of people with very little principle or ethics. OKcupid being a dick however does not make the former CEO's personal spending on prop 8 not a dick move. It's just that two wrongs don't make a right, and we don't even know if he still believes that crap.
 

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th3dark3rsh33p said:
RoonMian said:
From the news post about Eich stepping down: "Mozilla supports equality for all."

There, they had a CEO whose personal believes were the polar opposite of the company philosophy and without OKCupid's stand against it they wouldn't even have found out.

Really, Mozilla should extend an official "Thank You" to OKCupid. >:D
I very well doubt the company cared about his personal beliefs, and in any proper business setting they rightly shouldn't have. The reason he stepped down was due to the public shitstorm that was starting not anything on the company's part. Especially since he likely wasn't going to enact any anti gay policies, or move business funds towards traditional marriage bs.

There is a courtesy we grant people in polite society, a separation between your personal and professional life. OKcupid violated that, by making the man's personal life a factor in his professional. Not only was it childish it makes their company look like it's run by a bunch of people with very little principle or ethics. OKcupid being a dick however does not make the former CEO's personal spending on prop 8 not a dick move. It's just that two wrongs don't make a right, and we don't even know if he still believes that crap.
OKCupid just made use of its right to publically voice their opinions on Eich as Eich made use of his right to fund whatever political campaign he wants. Legally nobody has done anything wrong here.

Morally though this boils down to the dilemma I have mentioned earlier in this thread.

"You have to tolerate even intolerance" vs. "You cannot tolerate intolerance."

I know very well on which side of this dilemma I stand on. You obviously stand on the other side. I don't want to debate you on this because I have seen how you behave in the ten pages of this thread before.

Though I find it curious that you think OKCupid had no ethis or principles at all and were childish just because they are on the other side of this dilemma than you are. It's almost as if you were agitating against someone just because that someone has a different opinion than you do XD
 

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RoonMian said:
th3dark3rsh33p said:
RoonMian said:
From the news post about Eich stepping down: "Mozilla supports equality for all."

There, they had a CEO whose personal believes were the polar opposite of the company philosophy and without OKCupid's stand against it they wouldn't even have found out.

Really, Mozilla should extend an official "Thank You" to OKCupid. >:D
I very well doubt the company cared about his personal beliefs, and in any proper business setting they rightly shouldn't have. The reason he stepped down was due to the public shitstorm that was starting not anything on the company's part. Especially since he likely wasn't going to enact any anti gay policies, or move business funds towards traditional marriage bs.

There is a courtesy we grant people in polite society, a separation between your personal and professional life. OKcupid violated that, by making the man's personal life a factor in his professional. Not only was it childish it makes their company look like it's run by a bunch of people with very little principle or ethics. OKcupid being a dick however does not make the former CEO's personal spending on prop 8 not a dick move. It's just that two wrongs don't make a right, and we don't even know if he still believes that crap.
OKCupid just made use of its right to publically voice their opinions on Eich as Eich made use of his right to fund whatever political campaign he wants. Legally nobody has done anything wrong here.

Morally though this boils down to the dilemma I have mentioned earlier in this thread.

"You have to tolerate even intolerance" vs. "You cannot tolerate intolerance."

I know very well on which side of this dilemma I stand on. You obviously stand on the other side. I don't want to debate you on this because I have seen how you behave in the ten pages of this thread before.

Though I find it curious that you think OKCupid had no ethis or principles at all and were childish just because they are on the other side of this dilemma than you are. It's almost as if you were agitating against someone just because that someone has a different opinion than you do XD
Well I suppose I could respond in earnest but your pretty clearly set in your own views, and don't care to discuss them with me. Fair enough, but you probably don't have to be so self satisfied with it at the end of the day.
 

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ultreos2 said:
This man actually had to step down as he became a liability.

Can you name at least one life he actually destroyed and effected incomes and ability to enjoy happiness that his thousand dollar contribution caused? Just one life he wrecked? Cause OKcupid wrecked his. And what the LGBT community has expressed to me through OKcupid is that they are just as evil as anyone else.

I will never use OKcupid however in my own personal boycott as they are a group out to do evil. You won't hear me setting out to destroy a specific member of OKcupid however, because the entire company itself spoke.

All Mozilla did was hire a man and you guys wanted blood not for what a company did, but for what one of the cogs did that you felt reprhensible. So I will boycott OKcupid for doing reprhensible things. I will not boycott firefox because they did not do reprehensible things.

I hope OKcupid gets sued for this because they have it coming.
First: You said "you guys". No. Just no. I'm gonna let you figure out yourself what's wrong with those two words when adressing me in this context.

Second: You hope OKCupid gets sued? On what grounds? What did they actually do that would qualify as illegal?

Third: How has OKCupid destroyed Brendan Eich's life? Completely apart from me doubting that his life is actually that destroyed to begin with don't you think there are a few more step stones between OKCupid's open letter and Brendan Eich vacating his chair or even before it?

Fourth: I very much doubt that OKCupid sees itself as the official mouthpiece for the whole LGBT community or that the LGBT community regards OKCupid as its mouthpiece. The way I see it the people at OKCupid wrote an open letter to their users making their own opinion public, not forcing anyone to do anything.

And fifth: What finally made that man a liability? The act he himself commited? The fact that OKCupid shone a light on it? The people reading OKCupid's open letter and deciding for themselves that they agreed with them and then voicing their opinions as well? I feel this is all not as clear cut as you make it out to be. Please remember that Mozilla itself officially stated "Mozilla supports equality for all."
 

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JazzJack2 said:
Except you didn't, you said it would make it socially unacceptable but that would simply makes things worse.
That's still doing something! You just admitted I did make the case!

Look to the circumstances of which any Neo-Nazi or Fascist party rose out of and then tell me forcing these ideologies underground is a good idea.
Sweet. You jumped to Godwin's Law already and set up a false premise. You know what else came from popular social reform? Just about every democratic system. Freedom for blacks. Liberty for women. The rights of Jews to be treated as human beings in a lot of places. But the idea is bad because ZOMG Nazis?

Yes, and Hitler wore pants. So did the Columbine shooters. So clearly, pants are evil.

Or, you know, these acts are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. Fascists often rise to power the same way our heroes and champions do. Hitler was a strong orator, but so was Martin Luther King.

There's nothing disgusting with changing your consumer actions over the thoughts of an individual employee within a company (although it is very reactionary) but it is disgusting to then pressure said company into firing an employee because of his beliefs simply because you find them abhorrent.
You're describing the same thing twice. It's good to do it, but it's....Bad to do it.

I mean clearly you wouldn't support boycotting a company simply because the CEO is say a moderate conservative?
I would support the right to, and at the same time condemn it as stupid. Which are you talking about? Because that's no different than my stances on the other issues I brought up. I mean, we've actually had similar examples that companies have seen bycotts simply for their officials being liberals, and despite being a massive liberal (or as people outside the US would probably call me, a moderate), I've never condemned their ability to do so. I may think it's stupid, but that's not relevant to my argument here anyway.

So why should it be acceptable to pressure people out of work (particularily when his views are not at all relevant to his work) because they are homophobic? because the majority of people have now accepted homophobia is horrible?
Because the alternative is that we're duty bound to fiscally support practices we don't wish to. Why should we be forced to do that? What nation guarantees the right to make money off people you've tried to harm?

Like I said before attempting to force out horrible or unpopular opinions by making people who support them socially ostracised and unemployable is not only disgusting in itself and sets a very dangerous precedent for opinions that ride the line of acceptability it simply only buries the problem and lets is fester.
Yes, yes, the same slippery slope fallacy used to argue that if we're allowed to marry, soon people will marry trees, goats, and want to have sex with little boys.

When you make people socially outcast they are more likely to get even more extreme and more resentful. Look at Greece or France, now their economies are going to shit all the nasty Fascists elements are rising up because certain issues were never dealt with and were instead simply buried with these thoughts still existing underground (which also has the unfortunate effect of these parties and ideals being given large amounts of support simply from anti-government/establishment sentiment).
And again, you're not providing evidence of direct causation. Without that same context, we saw fascism rise in Eastern Europe. Therefore, it's a slippery slope fallacy.

I wasn't aware you know everything I've ever said on any issue, how do you know I don't call it disgusting?
You're on a web forum, one that can be searched for posts. Instead of trying to dodge the argument, maybe answer the question. You appear (and apparently, you missed the part where I didn't claim anything definitive about you,. or dishonestly ignored it) to remain silent when this sort of thing happens elsewhere, and specifically to LGBT folks or supporters. Why the silence if this is such a big deal? Why is it bad when your slippery slope fascists do it, but you don't seem to have any words for actual fascists?

I honestly did not intend to misrepresent the situation but I do feel you are basically just splitting hairs with regards to what I said he did.
Splitting hairs by including the full context? Wow. I don't even know what to say to that.

What as if we don't get politicians and political commentators like that Britain?
Can you demonstrate a few political officials equivalent to Bachmann and company? Perhaps some of the legislation they've passed? And maybe stop dodging questions and statements?


I am playing apolitical because the choice of software I use is an apolitical matter, bar software politics obviously (I.E things like Copyright management) of which Mozilla are on the right side being both free and open source. It has nothing to do with my marriage rights already being secured in my country as of this year, if I legitimately believed changing my browser would do anything to help gay people in other countries secure their rights I would but it doesn't and so I wont.
Dude, you're screaming "Nazis" over a choice not to use a web browser. Don't pretend you're actually being apolitical. Besides, you yourself have expanded the scope beyond a simple web browser, and you did it before I ever entered the conversation.

And if you honestly think your complacency has nothing to do with your more progressive treatment, you're deluding yourself. You're speaking from a position of relative privilege and chastising others who aren't so lucky.

Captcha: History repeats itself.

Considering we've seen this same sort of argument time and time again when blacks asked for rights, when women asked for rights, when religious minorities asked for rights, yeah. History is repeating itself.
 

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ultreos2 said:
Incest is illegal, not because there should be anything wrong with Incest if you want to be in that relationship, but because society has deemed an extremely rare scenario as illegal.
No, just no.

Incest DOES cause significant harm, just because you choose to believe otherwise, doesn't change the facts. Allowing it would also legalise sexual abuse, afterall, all an abuser has to do, is bully, terrorise or manipulate their victim into claiming that it's consensual. Protecting people from abuse isn't bigotry.

Tell you what. If you can provide complete evidence to show your claim is valid, demonstrate the lack of harm through a thesis, fully develpoped with supporting evidence and reference, build a complete legal framework which would allow these "genuine" familial parternships to occur while clearly and fully preventing abuse, then I'll reconsider your position. then of ocurse I wouldn't have to, if you had all that, you'd be able to change the law, yourself.

Good luck with that.

As for OP I haven't asked for anything to happen to the CEO involved, I've no idea where you got that idea.
 

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Lightknight said:
wolfyrik said:
Compeltely irrelevent, people can procreate without marriage, gay people can still care for children, increasing that child's survival and chance to procreate. which is exactly the purpose that homosexuality serves in nature.

What's more, allowing gay marriage would not affect the ability of straight people to marry OR procrete. In other words, allowing gay marraige would only serve to increase human survival by ensuring that more offspring have better care, and can survive to become parents themselves. In addition to the straight couples and their offspring. Entirely contrary to your claim that it would inhibit survival.


So the "monetary" argument is false, the "reproduction" argument is patently false.
Increase? Not necessarily. Not any more than allowing gay couples to adopt would. But do no harm? Certainly.

The population argument of Marriage is really quite a red herring. I wouldn't advocate for an infertile couple to not be able to Marry. The eventual logic of this red herring should demand fertility tests before marriage too.
Sorry I keep forgetting that we have different laws. Where I am, gay couples CAN adopt. Factor into that the financial "rights" of marriage which the previous poster was claiming and yes, the chances of a child to grow up and have children of their own do increase. I agree that the marriage itself isn't entirely necessary but any increase in the family's rights and income, through tax breaks as the poster claims or otherwise, would also enhance that child's life.

And you're entirely correct, it is a red herring. It precludes infertility exactly as you say. I'm pretty sure I pointed to that in previous post as well but it may have had a warning so you may not have seen it.
 

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Zachary Amaranth said:
JazzJack2 said:
Except you didn't, you said it would make it socially unacceptable but that would simply makes things worse.
That's still doing something! You just admitted I did make the case!

Look to the circumstances of which any Neo-Nazi or Fascist party rose out of and then tell me forcing these ideologies underground is a good idea.
Sweet. You jumped to Godwin's Law already and set up a false premise. You know what else came from popular social reform? Just about every democratic system. Freedom for blacks. Liberty for women. The rights of Jews to be treated as human beings in a lot of places. But the idea is bad because ZOMG Nazis?

Yes, and Hitler wore pants. So did the Columbine shooters. So clearly, pants are evil.

Or, you know, these acts are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. Fascists often rise to power the same way our heroes and champions do. Hitler was a strong orator, but so was Martin Luther King.
Most concise and brilliant post ever

I particularly like the pants point.

I usually go with 'bread' in these arguments, as in

"every serial killer recorded serial killer ate bread at some point in their lives, ban bread!!"
 

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ultreos2 said:
Well since I don't condone incest myself, it hardly seems fair that I deal with you on the subject. However since I happen to know a few things on the subject I will be more then happy to accommodate.
Who are you talking to?

ultreos2 said:
According to the LGBT community, you can't help what gender you become sexually attracted to. Tell me, why is it off all physical attributes of an individual, if two people have nearly identical physical shape and attractiveness you can fall in love with one person and not the other? Even given all physical attributes are nearly identical.
Exxcept that attraction requires more than simple ideas about shape, this is gross over-simplication at best and entirely irrelevent. The point is that you can't help the sexuality you're born with. And homosexuality IS a trait you are born in to, it also occurs in nature and serves a valuable purpose.

ultreos2 said:
This has suggested over the decades that you might also not have control over whom you become sexually attracted to either. You just have the ability to become sexually attracted to multiple people.

So assuming that the LGBT community consists of... 1% of the world, hardly a very easy to test sample size theory on any account as to how it happens. We for example can't determine what drives people to murder with 100% certainty either. An even lesser percentage. Of people to deal with.
Ok, so you just pulled that figure out of thin air without justification and expect us to accept it at a premise? Firstly people have been examinating homosexuality and sexuality in general for almost two centuries and it was considered normal and acceptable over 1500 years ago, across many cultures. Furthermore, theories aren't tested on anyone. Theories are the explanations of the evidence and experimentation already done and which are continually supported. The fact is that homsexuality occurs in nature, it is something you're born with.

ultreos2 said:
So given that nearly the entire world considers incest wrong, what percentage do you suppose of the world population ends up in incectuous relationships who are also normal, and healthy individuals?

And this is the important distinction as there is a lack of enough evidence of a normal and healthy pair of individuals related by blood who end up in a sexual relationship and have a child. Nd those that do would be afraid to say so, as they recognize society is unacceptable of it.
Why are you so obsessed with incest? It has nothing at all to do with allowing gay marriage. You're trying to create a false equivolency fallacy, and use that to build a strawman fallacy, while ignoring the facts, dangers and moral implications on why incest has to be illegal. Even if you could prove that there was such a thing as a "healthy" incestuous relationship, that would have absolutely no impact at all on allowing or banning gay marriage. The two are completly seperate.

ultreos2 said:
So you are asking for proof on something improvable because it is so universally loathed you have caused those who are in normal mindsets to hide their love and desire from the rest of the world because they are a sibling or parent.

So you are left with people who already have pre existing abnormalities having incestual relationships and having children, and thus, you have a higher percentage chance of ending up with a baby who has abnormalities.

No "normal" person engages in incest, because society loathes.
Please demonstrate your evidence for this claim.

ultreos2 said:
Just as the LGBT community were not "normal" human beings. They had abnormalities and or deformities that "made" them that way. So they were driven into hiding by marrying a partner of the opposite gender to convince themselves they were normal.
So you're stating that homosexuality is an abnormality, despite the fact you have no evidence to support this claim and current knowledge demosntrates it to be false. Oh by the way the 1880s called you, they want their intolerence back.

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You see. Because we have created a test ground that has confirmation bias, only the already abnormal participate in incestuous relations.
All evidence againt incest as being terrible, is simple use of confirmation bias and dismissing all healthy children born in this way just a lucky chance, an outlier in the already heavily biased statistics and can not be tested further to prove one way or the other. Simply because it is Universally reviled.
Same claim as before, you haven't demonstrated that incest only occurs in the "already abnormal" Furthmore, we have centuries of monarchic and high society interbreeding, to study. We have millenia of interbred animals suffering from call kinds of maladies. You don't seem to understand how life works, especially the passing on of DNA. You're also making the false correlation between physcial abnormality and proclivity to incest, as well as the baseless claim that proclivity to incest is somehow genetic, passed down and inherent. You're still ignoring the fact that laws against incest are tied to paedophilia law and are there to prevent the abuse of people who cannot be said to give consent or can be abused, manipulated around the clock into giving false consent.

It's a fact taht close relatives can establish genuine attraction to one another, but only under specific circumstances. Namely they have to be raised completely seperately, never having any contact and no knowledge of their existence, until meeting in adulthood.
You see, despite youur backwards idea of how this is studied, we know by studying changes in brain chemistry among siblings who raised together and apart (not only people who engage in incest), that our brains form specific connections with family members, which identify them and prevent attraction.

If incest is occuring in a family unit, it means that either abuse is taking place which is based on power and self-serving, not affection or both parties are engaged in experimentation. Now in the case of abuse, it can't ever be justified and you're claims are just absurd, in the case of the latter, it's still not justified, if it even occurs (I've never heard of it outside of stories and anecdotes), but it absolutely cannot be considered as romantic involvment or mutual attraction.

Furthermore, your argument still doesn't get anywhere near to explaining why this has anything at all to do with allowing gay marriage.

ultreos2 said:
In other words. Exactly what the LGBT community went through. You were all just mentally disturbed individuals.
Firstly, I'm not L,G,B or T, I'm straight, so you've made a false assumption to begin with if in fact you were posting even remotely in response to me. Secondly, you're making the claim that homosexuality, bisexuality and Transgender are mental illnesses Despite the fact that this has been proven false. Now, would you care to provide evidence of your claim, if so you should know you're up against the medical community and centuries of study and evidence.

I look forward to reading your thesis, disproving modern scientific understanding.


Good luck with that.
 

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Sorry I keep forgetting that we have different laws. Where I am, gay couples CAN adopt. Factor into that the financial "rights" of marriage which the previous poster was claiming and yes, the chances of a child to grow up and have children of their own do increase. I agree that the marriage itself isn't entirely necessary but any increase in the family's rights and income, through tax breaks as the poster claims or otherwise, would also enhance that child's life.
They can adopt here too, and are encouraged to do so. But yeah, some states haven't figured in the idea that a stable and loving home is better than foster care.

I thought with the repeal of DOMA that civil unions get the tax incentives too. And any family gets financial/tax benefits according to the number of dependents they have.

The big thing right now sees to be more a denial of other rights like hospital visitation and inheritance laws.

I would be interested to see what rights are still denied. Even so, even if they had absolutely anything I would still want the term "Marriage" in marriage license to be altered to side step this whole silly problem and keep the government from having control over what I believe to be a fundamental human right (straight, gay and otherwise).

And you're entirely correct, it is a red herring. It precludes infertility exactly as you say. I'm pretty sure I pointed to that in previous post as well but it may have had a warning so you may not have seen it.
Sorry, I was embroiled in an entirely different discussion and missed it if you said it.
 

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The overreaction here is absolutely ridiculous.

There was no bullying, there was no harassment, and there was no mob mentality. OKCupid simply made a message stating that the CEO was found to put his fundings into anti-LGBT law proposals and if they so wished they can choose to use another web browser instead.

That's it. They didn't provide the man's contact information, they didn't encourage users to mob him. They just let their userbase know what's up.

Also this same reaction would apply if the CEO had put in funding to say anti interracial marriage proposals or segregation proposals. At the end of the day he put his money in a bill that prohibited the rights of a certain demographic of people from being able to do something most straight people can do on a daily basis. As a major CEO putting your money down on something like that was bound to get found out anyway. If not by OKCupid, but by something even bigger- a snooping news outlet. Which would of been even worse.

Mozilla did the very right choice here. The man gets his money from Mozilla, and Mozilla- being as big as it is has a very large LGBTQ+ base. So of course having something like this come out would make them shit their pants. So they would have to cut ties with him in order to save the business. The man will easily find a job elsewhere.

Did he treat his LGBT employees like trash? No. But that doesn't necessarily mean you like them. You can have a boss who is racist as fuck, but still hire you on his payroll. That doesn't mean he isn't going to go out of his way to support any bill that oppresses said group of people.
 

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I apologize for answering after almost 2 days, was busy with work.

JazzJack2 said:
Emanuele Ciriachi said:
In a way, you are right.
But living a life where their own emotional/sexual satisfaction is more important than contributing to renovate society? I wouldn't think so.
A truly functioning society is one that places individual autonomy at the forefront, these utopian ideals that involve sacrificing your own autonomy to renovate society are inherently self-contradictory ideals, giving up your own autonomy will only degrade society not renovate it.
You can have individual autonomy while also idealizing self-sacrifice for the common good. It all boils down to what you do with your autonomy.

MarsAtlas said:
Homophobia is not a medical term. It never has been. Its not used to describe a medical condition.
But it includes inside its name a very real medical condition - and the very obvious and transparent goal of using a medical term in it, is to subtly slant and offend someone as sick in the head.

Opposing same-sex "marriage" is not a phobia - it is a healthy, rational reaction at the evidence that's been provided, and any sane liberal can agree with it.

Fsyco said:
I'm not saying that because they do it we should do it, I'm saying that it's a naturally occurring thing. Because it IS a naturally occurring thing.
Fair enough - but simply stating that does not add much to this debate.

Fsyco said:
My great grandparents worked with Mao to oppress people, so do I get a free pass on that one? Oh and I've got ancestors further back who fought for the Confederacy. I'm pretty sure I can live with disappointing some racists and communists.
Count me in as well - I am italian, and both my grandparents fought in WW2 as part of the Axis; not that they had much choice of course. Despite that, now that I live in London, I proudly wear my poppy in the Remembrance day; I'm sure that they, if they can really look down on me from Heaven, understand full well.




wolfyrik said:
So now you "chose to be romantically involved"? So you're saying romantic love is a choice, rather than an emotional response? You still haven't answered the question of familial love being different than romantic love. Are they the same?
I can choose whether or not to follow on my emotion; I am a rational being, I evaluate my choice at the light of reason being aware of why my body sends me signals the way it does.
I did answer, and I said that they are different - but not different enough that either of them deserves special protection from a State.

you ignore the fact that incest is illegal,
Legalistic argument. It's illegal for practical reason, that don't apply if both people committing it are of the same sex.

wolfyrik said:
Are you suggesting that straight couples, who haven't had children together, but have children from other relationshuips, shouldn't be allowed to marry?
Depends on what marriage is about. Of course they can live together and love each other, but if you had read my other posts you would see that my emphasis lies in the what they get from the government for being togethers vs what the government get from their union. So yes, the answer is, "depends".

wolfyrik said:
As for residency permits, why shouldn't people who love each other have the right to be together?
Because that, depending on how this permission is granted, may or may not lead to explotation of immigration. Son, we live in a world that has walls...


2012 Wont Happen said:
You either support equality or do not support it. Anyone who does not support equality being granted to an institutionally repressed minority is an accesory to their societal suppression. So yes, you are either with them or against them.
Except that opposing homosexual marriage has nothing to do with denying them equality of oppressing them - thus the allegation that he violated Mozilla's mission statement is pathetic. On the other hand, it's Mozilla that choose to be irrationally un-inclusive.
 

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This is so stupid and it makes me so angry. I'm not going to go into my personal opinion on what the whole gay marriage thing is. What I will say though is the political opinions of the CEO don't matter. What matters is how good he is at his job. I could care less about anything else.

Personally I find it disgusting that a man should resign for simply having an opinion an unpopular opinion maybe but just an opinion nonetheless. Even if I personally find the opinion itself to be disgusting, the only think I think is worse is when society tries to force people to think a certain way imagine if you were fired because people didn't like the person you voted for in the last election. You did nothing wrong you bloke no laws, people just found out that your favaorate candidate was someone they didn't like. Does that mean you should lose your job.

If you're going to suppress someone for views such is this then you're no different from those who suppressed homosexuals and still do all over the world.
 

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2012 Wont Happen said:
Can you tell me a possibility of belief that is neither supporting or not supporting gay rights? Any given thing can be A or not A, with no outside possibility.
I support gay marriage and anything that is strictly kept between consenting adults.
In that sense I support gay rights right?

Except I get a bit more iffy when it comes to IVF treatments and surrogate mothers carrying babies for gay couples, just like I've always been horrified at peeps getting kids for financial benefits or to qualify for welfare seeing gay couples keen on having a kid for what seems to be purely selfish reason always rubbed me the wrong way. Yet for a lot of gay activists this is a no brainer issue.

So then, where does that leave me in your Black and white world? You make it clear it's an all or nothing deal so if Im not "with" I'm "against" then?
 

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Tony2077 said:
i like firefox and i don't want to change but i don't support that anti gay nonsense
I used to be a huge Firefox fan, but honestly I switched to Chrome about a year ago and I love it even more. Its just... neater cleaner sort of browser.
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I really don't see the issue with someone dropping 1,000 dollars into the bigamist bucket, its really lunch money compared to the greater contribution as a whole.
 

Therumancer

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To be honest I hope this backfires. To be honest I think it's going too far when people are being harassed (directly or through their customers) for exercising their political rights. You have as much right to be anti-gay as you do pro-gay as long as your not taking violence into the streets, and really that has nothing to do with the quality of something like a web browser.

Honestly I think part of the reason we are seeing things get this touchy is because the country is polarized almost 50-50 on this issue (with single digit percentages waffling back and forth at various times, and both sides claiming to have a clear majority at different times), along with some other big ones. The pro-gay side of things happens to be better organized and pro-active at the moment which has given it an advantage in terms of voter turn outs and such, and things like this help keep it active so it won't fizzle out and lose it's inertia, especially if the other side decides to put more effort in attempting to rally than we've seen so far. Especially with elections coming up, and predictions that the left wing could be in for a truly historic drubbing.

My opinions on the issue aside, harassing your rank and file users isn't cool. I'd think it was equally ridiculous if the anti-gay side did it. That's why I hope it backfires, as users who give a crap about politics or at least want to get away from then when they visit an E-dating site take their business elsewhere.