The Guardian has just revealed that in addition to donating $1,000 to help ban gay marriage in California, new Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich also contributed $1000 during the early 1990s to anti-gay right-wing Republican presidential candidate and $2000 in the late 90s to Texas state Republican congressman Ron Paul, a man who preferred to leave gay marriage up to individual states.
The Guardian notes:
During the AIDS outbreak of 1990,
Buchanan said “our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on
Satanism and suicide”. A few years earlier he said “homosexuals have
declared war on nature, and now nature is exacting an awful
retribution”.
In a 2010 article on [gay marriage],
Buchanan remarked that "all the great religions have condemned
homosexuality and all the great nations have proscribed or punished it"
and concluded: "Historically, from the late Roman Empire to Weimar,
flagrant homosexuality has been associated with sick societies, decadent
cultures and dying civilizations.”
Ever since news of Eich’s anti-gay California contribution has become public, there have been calls for a Mozilla boycott from both pro and anti-gay groups, calls for Eich to step down from Mozilla employees, several resignations of Mozilla board members, even as Eich continues to sidestep questions on his current stance towards same-sex marriage.
http://www.towleroad.com/2014/04/mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-also-contributed-to-anti-gay-gop-candidates.html
