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Mountain View, Calif., Apr 4, 2014 \/ 08:16 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Critics slammed Web browser Firefox's announcement that CEO Brendan Eich resigned in wake of controversy surrounding his support of traditional marriage, calling the move intolerant of free speech. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tAndrew Sullivan \u2013 founding editor of political blog \u201cThe Dish\u201d and writer of the first national cover-story in favor of the legalization of same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d in 1989 \u2013 strongly criticized Eich's resignation in a April 3 post.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWill he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks?\u201d he wrote, adding that \u201cThe whole episode disgusts me \u2013 as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIf this is the gay rights movement today \u2013 hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else \u2013 then count me out,\u201d Sullivan noted.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIf we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAs co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich was appointed as the company's Chief Executive Officer just last month, but has stepped down after his 2008 personal donation of $1,000 to support California\u2019s Proposition 8 \u2013 which opposed the legalization of gay \u201cmarriage\u201d \u2013 came under fire by some within the LGBT community.<\/p>\n

\tAccording to USA Today, online dating site OKCupid even urged a boycott of the search engine, calling on Firefox users to change their browser in protest to Eich's appointment.<\/p>\n

\tThe newspaper also reports that last week Eich attempted to dispel the concerns erupting over the web and social media by writing in a March 26 blog post that \u201cI can only ask for your support to have the time to 'show, not tell;' and in the meantime, express my sorrow at having caused pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI am committed,\u201d he wrote, \u201cto ensuring that Mozilla is, and will remain, a place that includes and supports everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, economic status or religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHowever, the public apology was not enough to satisfy those criticizing Eich's stance in support of traditional marriage, and many are claiming that his move to resign was unfair and pushed by same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d advocates.<\/p>\n

\tIn a statement Thursday, Mozilla's executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker insisted that Eich \u201cmade this decision for Mozilla and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Washington Examiner reflected in an April 3 piece, however, that Eich \u201cresigned under pressure after gay rights activists demanded that he step down or recant his support of traditional marriage laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPolitical scholar and author Ryan T. Anderson also decried the decision in an April 3 article published in The Foundry, noting that \u201cthe outrageous treatment of Eich is the result of one private, personal campaign contribution to support marriage as a male-female union.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIt is, he observed, \u201ca view affirmed at the time by President Barack Obama, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, and countless other prominent officials. After all, Prop 8 passed with the support of 7 million California voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tProposition 8 was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in November 2008 supporting the traditional definition of marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling.<\/p>\n

\tUltimately the proposition was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010, although the ruling was not official confirmed until June 26, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed proponents' appeals based on lack of legal standing.<\/p>\n

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