You're right, that equating Eich's personal decisions to the js community as a whole is wrong. This does not change my opinion of him though. I am not gay. Bu

You're right, that equating Eich's personal decisions to the js community as a whole is wrong. This does not change my opinion of him though. I am not gay. But my best friend and my cousin are. Another good friend of mine is transgendered. I can't count, without serious thought, the number of other friends and acquaintances I have that are gay. I'm lucky to live in San Francisco. But it pains me that people I consider family don't have the same rights that I do, simply because my genes are expressed one way and theirs another. When I heard yesterday that a respected member of our community and CTO of Mozilla actively spent a significant amount of money in favor Prop 8, something that I marched against, to say it made my blood boil is an understatement. The problem with most open-minded people is that we're to open-minded. Since we generally are apt to let people do as they will as long as it doesn't affect us, we even take a soft stance when we are being actively attacked. This has got to stop. There are sides in the fight against intolerance. Brendan Eich clearly chose which line to stand behind when he opened his wallet. Intolerance isn't something that can be done away with by waiving flowers and placards in the air and dismissing the deliberate actions of individuals as "those are just their beliefs". No. People are more than welcome to live in whatever fantasy world they want inside their own head, but when you try to enforce that fantasy on other people, you have to be stopped. Brendan Eich made his choice. He needs to be shunned. He should be fired from Mozilla. He should not be invited to speak or give talks. If he purchases tickets to any events based around our community, his money should be refunded and his entrance refused. My hope is that he will come around and renounce his position. Show that he isn't an intolerant person and sees the errors of his ways. Being open-minded means that we accept others who are open-minded, and we do not tolerate those who want to deny human rights and liberties to others. Intolerance must be burned out with the metaphorical fire.