Mozilla CEO Resigns

Cristero victims on display for passersby along the railroad.

I’ve been pondering whether to say anything about the recent resignation of Mozilla’s CEO on the grounds that he once supported a ballot proposition to prevent the legal recognition of gay marriage. On the one hand, I find it appalling that someone should lose their job for their politics, but on the other hand, I do feel it is the right of a business to hire whomever they want.

Ruins of Guernica, Spanish Civil War.

Vox Populi has fewer reservations, and has issued a war cry. I cannot endorse the idea of a battle between religious and constitutional rights, in part because I believe the two are inseparable and cannot in the end really be in conflict; in part because I believe fervently in both. But he does speak some worldly wisdom: if the government and/or the left really wants to fight religion, it is going to get nasty, and in the end they will not win. The Cristero War in Mexico gives one indication of how this will go. The Spanish Civil War gives another.

The proper and probably most effective way to ensure that this kind of thing does not happen again--and perhaps to fend off something worse--is the boycott. As a consumer, if the forced resignation of Eich concerns you, avoid using Mozilla products like FireFox. Free Canuckistan has a list of alternatives.