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OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights

Posted by Soulskill on from the unwelcoming-is-unwelcome dept.

PortWineBoy writes: "The Beeb is reporting that OkCupid is prompting Mozilla Firefox users to switch browsers over Brendan Eich's support of Prop 8 in California in 2008. Users are met with a message stating that OKCupid would prefer no one access their site with Mozilla software. Eich is the new CEO of Mozilla."

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  1. I assume Opera is the prefered browser of choice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. I went there.

  2. April Fools stories are gay by rossdee · · Score: 3, Funny

    I look forward to the 2nd or April

    1. Re:April Fools stories are gay by flaming+error · · Score: 1, Funny

      So you *are* blaming Obama.

  3. Next step: Javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK Cupid is in the process of getting rid of all Javascript on the site, since Brendan Eich was the creator of that too. All interactive content will be replaced with the more LGBT-friendly Adobe Flash.

    1. Re:Next step: Javascript by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is the guy that invented Flash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
      Coincidence?

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  4. They should really boycott Google by RevWaldo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google at last count provides 90% of Mozilla's revenue - http://thenextweb.com/insider/...

    Boycott Firefox AND Chrome! Long live Lynx!

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  5. That's it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    From now on, I shall only surf OkCupid using LOIC.

  6. What do I do? by Carnivore24 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm confused. Should I keep watching Duck Dynasty and Honey Boo Boo? Where should I eat? Is it ok to eat at Taco Bell and Subway still?

  7. Re:More reason to keep using Firefox! by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Longtime Firefox user here and traditional family values supporter.

    How many wives do you have and how many goat did you pay for each one?

  8. Re:Are people not allowed to have opinions? by meta-monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is marriage a "basic human right?" It's never been a basic human right. And the concept of a gay marriage never existed in the 6,000 years of recorded history until about 15 years ago.

    I'm not making a stance on whether I am for or against gay marriage, but it is not a right. The only real purpose of marriage licensing is to make divorce proceedings easier. Since 90% of contract law is arguing whether or not an enforceable contract ever existed, the family courts short circuit that process and require verification that those who want to get married aren't already married to somebody else, are of legal age, not being coerced, etc. This is why when I got my marriage license it came with a 30 page booklet on how to get a divorce. A marriage license is not a bonus cookie the state gives you for being straight and in love. It just makes it easier for the court to adjudicate your divorce later. Grats, gays. You won the right to gay divorce.

    Which raises another interesting question. If two women get divorced, how does the family court judge know who to blame everything on since there's no man involved? And if two men get divorced, do they just burn the house down because there's no woman to give it to?

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  9. Re:Wait... wha? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I based every software purchasing decision on whether or not the company CEO was a prick...

    Larry Ellison just felt a disturbance in the force.

  10. Re:Terrible precedent by PRMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quick, what's Tim Cook's stand on gay marriage?

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  11. Re:Im all for human rights... by Rinikusu · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what you're saying is.. don't hate Eich for his stance on gay marriage. Hate him for javascript.

    Works for me.

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  12. Re:Im all for human rights... by painandgreed · · Score: 5, Funny

    being gay is not a matter of religion

    Romans 1

    26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

    It is very much a religious issue for many people.

    That's just artifacts of the English translation being unable to convey the true meaning of the scriptures. It doesn't remotely mean the same thing when read in the original Klingon.

  13. Re:Wait... wha? by Copid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Governor: You homosexuals will have all the exact same rights as married couples, but, instead of referring to you as "married", you can be... butt buddies.

    [long silence]

    Governor: Instead of being "man and wife", you'll be... butt buddies. You won't be "betrothed", you'll be...

    [makes quote with his fingers]

    Governor: ...butt buddies. Get it? Instead of a "bride and groom", you'd be...

    [makes quote with his fingers again]

    Governor: ...butt buddies.

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