He followed the internal guidelines and respected the TGBL people inside mozilla. That should have been the end of it. "I fundamentally disagree with you about

He followed the internal guidelines and respected the TGBL people inside mozilla. That should have been the end of it. "I fundamentally disagree with you about this very important issue, and we should still find a way to cooperate" is a crucial idea, hard won and, as we are seeing, easily lost. It underpins multi-religious societies, working democracies, and in general, any group of people that need to do something. Unfortunately, right now we have groups of people that say the polar oposite: "It is good and moral to shun people who disagree with X". I totally agree with marriage equality. But I think it can be (and mostly was) won on dialogue, not shunning. And I will always be against the shunners (though I hope not to shun them :P).