I moved this to the top so that I could respond to it first. EDIT: I wasn't talking to you BTW, I was directing to sturg. I apologize, I had been meaning to address this for a while, I just never saw the opportunity. I guess I should have waited until I found a better opportunity, I just jumped in here, sorry about that.
I loathe the KKK, but I still respect their right to protest like they did in Atlanta. Do I agree with it? Absolutely not, but if I can do everything I can within the boundaries of law to put them out of business I would.---This is how I feel. Sometimes you have to "hold your nose" while you're doing the right thing in a democracy.
I think businesses more than anything understand how much money gay's have, and gay supporters. You discriminate against 1 gay person, you aren't factoring in their friends whom will find out and protest your business as well. Gay rights have evolved, and are no longer gays themselves. You see parents of gay kids going out and marching now in support as well, that was unheard of decades ago. I'm actually fine with the Rosa Parks approach, get together with a business or a person if you don't agree with them, but I do think weso has a point on this, any time you have a group that already has the pitchforks and torches out and ready to go and you jump on anyone who disagrees with your point of view that's more mobocracy than democracy and you know as well as I do we're moving towards that on both the left and right wings in this country. The prevalence of social media is probably what is most responsible for things getting to this point IMO. I've always said that I'm against same sex marriage being equated with regular marriage, even though I would never be for any state passing a law to discriminate against them and I've also always said that if any given state votes to legalize it then so be it. That's what a democracy does. Oh and any person who physically harms a gay person should be immediately locked up in a prison full of them until I say they can be let out. to me there's always room for disagreements, but violence NEVER gets to enter the picture except in cases of self defense.
I think what people are confusing, is free speech and opinions that have consequences. Like Zito said, progressive company, progressive consumers, should know better. If you're a liberal campaign manager, there's a 99.9% certainty you aren't going to work and manage a Republican campaign. You still respect the Republican campaign's right to free speech, but you are working against them. As I said I'm OK with consumers spending their money hand in hand with their beliefs, but I think we should all be careful here not to get too aggressive too quickly on these things. I freakin' hate Wal Mart but I still shop there sometimes.
Politics should not be in the workplace, so this CEO resigning is a prime example of it. "Forced politics" should not be in the workplace but if I want to have a Ron Paul sticker on my desk, or a Mitt Romney sticker, or a Barrack Obama sticker, or a marriage is between 1 man and 1 women sticker, or a same sex marriage is cool sticker on my desk, any of these should be fine as long as it doesn't otherwise affect my work.
CEO's not going to jail, he's not being deported. Not today, but you can't tell me there aren't extremists in this country who wouldn't want to literally lock up anyone who disagrees with them.
People called for his ousting, and if there wasn't financial components to this he'd still be working. I saw that Dalyn liked Firefox and it used to be my favorite browser too, and on my laptop it still is, but the one of my desktop isn't very good anymore. Google Chrome has become my fave, though it has been a little shaky lately. IE now has sucked (as in being able to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose) for some time now. I NEVER use it anymore and it used to be my favorite. Maybe if he was spending the time and money to make sure his stinking browser worked correctly none of this would have happened.
