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Instead he got targetted by an intollerant lynch mob that felt it had to strong-arm someone with views they didn't agree with Stop being so dramatic; this was

Instead he got targetted by an intollerant lynch mob that felt it had to strong-arm someone with views they didn't agree with Stop being so dramatic; this was not a lynch mob, it was a bunch of rightly pissed-off people, including many members of the open web community, who were angered that somebody who had been actively trying to strip their civil rights had been promoted to the head of an organisation which explicitly talks about the importance of diversity in the community. It is really super difficult to reasonably say that objecting to someone's intolerance is in itself intolerance.

tgdfhgfh 13y ago
But conservatives who support traditional marriage (and civil unions with the same rights as marriage) are not welcome in the club, right? How is that appreciating a diversity of thought?
- bemaniac 13y ago
  They're not welcome to the club when they're taking actions to strip the rights of another individual. Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another.
  - mcphage 13y ago
    > Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another. Where's the line? Donating $100,000? Donating $1,000? Donating $5? Voting? Discussing your opinion? Setting your facebook profile? Telling someone when they ask? Not answering when they ask?
    - gress 13y ago
      The donation wasn't for a public information campaign to encourage gay people not to marry. If was for a law to force them not to. That's the difference.
- matthewmacleod 13y ago
  You know, if Erich had stated "Hey, I'm not pro gay-marriage, but I'm really behind equal civil partnerships that offer all the same rights" then the backlash would be much milder. But there is a vanishingly small number of people who hold that opinion, because it's pretty ludicrous (boils down to 'this word is so important that it must not be changed, despite the fact that I don't object at all to equality')
  - LordKano 13y ago
    So. You're conceding that there would still be a backlash.

tgdfhgfh 13y ago

But conservatives who support traditional marriage (and civil unions with the same rights as marriage) are not welcome in the club, right? How is that appreciating a diversity of thought?

bemaniac 13y ago
They're not welcome to the club when they're taking actions to strip the rights of another individual. Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another.
- mcphage 13y ago
  > Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another. Where's the line? Donating $100,000? Donating $1,000? Donating $5? Voting? Discussing your opinion? Setting your facebook profile? Telling someone when they ask? Not answering when they ask?
  - gress 13y ago
    The donation wasn't for a public information campaign to encourage gay people not to marry. If was for a law to force them not to. That's the difference.
matthewmacleod 13y ago
You know, if Erich had stated "Hey, I'm not pro gay-marriage, but I'm really behind equal civil partnerships that offer all the same rights" then the backlash would be much milder. But there is a vanishingly small number of people who hold that opinion, because it's pretty ludicrous (boils down to 'this word is so important that it must not be changed, despite the fact that I don't object at all to equality')
- LordKano 13y ago
  So. You're conceding that there would still be a backlash.