[April 05, 2014] The Mozilla senior executive leadership took a radical and un-American step in forcing their new CEO to step down for privately supporting traditional marriage over gay marriage.
In the United States, we are beginning to see some companies like Mozilla forcing people out of jobs because of their private views. In this case, his private view was taking the historical and current mainstream view, nothing radical or dangerous.
Mozilla’s action is not in keeping with their stated values of “diversity” and “inclusion.” Anyone who would like to read Mozilla’s press statement about how being intolerant is really about diversity and inclusion, see below.
Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.
Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla supports equality for all.
We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public. This is meant to distinguish Mozilla from most organizations and hold us to a higher standard. But this time we failed to listen, to engage, and to be guided by our community.
Freedom loses.
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NOTE: I erased my Mozilla Firefox browser from my computer, although it will have zero affect on them. But, it did make me feel better.