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OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights

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. Re:Terrible precedent by geekoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    There isn't anything wrong with the list of reason you give for boycotting.

    You have posted the lamest slippery slope fallacy I have seen in a while.

    And then for no damn reason at all, you bring Obama into it.
    Geekoid's law:
    Everyone without logic will eventually bring Obama up.

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  2. Re:Im all for human rights... by PRMan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Re:Im all for human rights... by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 4, Informative

    Especially when the civil union would give the same legal protections as marriage.

    No. You are in grievous error. Civil unions do not grant the same protections as civil marriage. They are a second-class sort of union, and are far more discriminatory than merely not being permitted to sit in the front of the bus.

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  4. Re:April Fools stories are gay by bledri · · Score: 4, Informative

    But laying this at the feet of "The Left" much less Obama is utter horseshit

    Not really, no. This tactic of destroying people's livehoods by virtue of internet slacktivism is unquestionably a page out of the leftist playbook.

    You're kidding right?

    If you think that only liberals boycott companies and people they disagree with, you are living in a cognitive bubble.

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