The problem isn't that he was pretty much forced to step down as CEO, it's that he was ever given the position without proper vetting in the first place. Being

The problem isn't that he was pretty much forced to step down as CEO, it's that he was ever given the position without proper vetting in the first place. Being a co-founder does not make one CEO material. I don't know Mozilla's process, but if I were just making a casual observance, I'd say they were determined to hire the guy without using all the resources available to determine whether he was the best candidate for the job. The slippery slope argument is bullshit. "Where do we draw the line?" Well, let's see: if he has simply voted Republican, he'd have been fine. If he'd have voted for Prop 8 but contributed no money to it, there wouldn't be a money trail to show that he's a bigot. He'd probably fine until he got himself into the potential HR fiasco that would have damaged Mozilla a great deal more than they've been for not doing a proper executive search. But neither of those happened. Instead, he left a money trail to specifically support a bigoted cause. There's the line.