We cats love it when news stories juxtapose in interesting ways. Case in point: No sooner did we hear that Mississippi is the place to go if you want to legally discriminate against gays, the CEO of Mozilla resigned so that he could rescue his company from his support of Proposition 8.
Since we use Firefox to publish this blog, we have to say we are darn relieved that Brendan Eich is history. And because we will never, ever visit the Magnolia State in the course of our nine lives, Governor Phil Bryant's approval of legislation that even Arizona's Jan Brewer dared not sign will not personally affect us.
But the Mississippi law is disgusting, and it surely will be declared unconstitutional at some point. In the meantime, it stands as the gay haters' last-ditch effort to influence market forces that are clearly trending against them.
Capitalism — ain't it grand? The teabags and the Phelpses and all those other so-called Christians not only want business owners to be able to refuse service to people they don't approve of — they happily scream that Americans should boycott gay-friendly companies like Google, Starbucks and Apple. But guess what, guys! We non-haters also have the power of the purse — and, as the Mozilla uproar shows, we won't hesitate to use it.
We're just glad Eich is toast so we don't have to boycott Firefox the way we've shunned Target these last few years. We cats PURR.
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