BALTIMORE, Maryland April 7, 2014 - He would have us believe that after tarrying for months or even years of his life inside a moral dilemma unlike any he'd confronted before, he was at last able to arrive at a totally new moral view. He'd have us believe that this personal struggle caused him to "grow" as an intellectual being and only after this moral growth was he able to resolve his personal dilemma. Only after his growth and maturation was he able to throw off the yoke that was his life-long belief that gay marriage was wrong. Having grown, he now understood that gay marriage was a morally good thing. That's all well and good. But there were red flags everywhere among those of us who question the motive of just about everything he does, and virtually everything that he says. This is chiefly because of his sad propensity for lying. People like Obama, who exist on the uber left, accept the fact that lying is a means to an end. It is as much a part of their make-up as is the repugnance they feel towards anyone who doesn't totally agree with everything they believe. Some call this moral decadence. But the biggest red flag was his utter failure to address his oft-stated Christian beliefs. The Catholic Church and many Protestant Denominations believe that gay marraige is against the tenets of Christianity. Some have the opposite view. There are parts of the Bible which state, unequivocally, that homosexuality is wrong. I do not know what Obama's Church believed. I know that if his faith had any importance to him, he needed to say how it was that he could implicate his faith for his opposition to gay marriage, but when his views change not say a specific word about the parts of the Bible that had convinced him of the opposite view for most of his life.
I bring all of this up because of what has happened to the fellow at Mozilla, Brendan Eich. Back in 2008, with his personal money, he made a $1,000 contribution to the folks who were championing traditional marriage in a California ballot issue. He never made his views public, least of all around Mozilla. Everyone agrees that he treated everybody the same, and that others only discovered what he had done when some court battle not involving him forced California to release a list of those who had contributed to the respective sides in the ballot fight. In 2008, Brendan Eich had the same view as did Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. When it was shown that Eich had made this contribution - and for all anybody knows that is the only time he acted on his private view that traditional marriage is a good thing. No matter. What one very far left commentator called the "gay mafia" ordered a hit on Eich. He was tarred and feathered and trashed without mercy. The Mozilla Board of Directors displayed a moral indecency that was pathetic. They forced his immediate resignation. Then they put out a statement that was intellectually dishonest, and, over and above that, mindless. Really, really mindless. The person who wrote it and approved it need to return to school. Middle school.
This would have been the end of it except that there has been a tremendous pushback by a large number of people from both sides of the issue. It's one thing to react when someone's political views have a demonstrable impact on the way they do their job. If Eich had prevented anyone in a gay marriage from working at Mozilla, or if Eich had forced all Mozilla employees to out themselves, even on only the gay marraige issuess, I would have a different opinion. But this didn't happen. Eich apparently was quite meticulous in keeping his private views separate from his public views. In fact, for all we know, it is possible that Eich also has had a politically correct epiphany just like Obama. We don't know. Eich was booted out so fast nobody took the time to find out what his views are, as in are now. In 2008, when he made his big contribution, his views were exactly equal to Barack Obama, and to Hilary Clinton.
What so aggravates me about this entire episode of changing societal views is how the media and others have treated Obama as if he were in favor of gay marriage all along. Maybe he was. Maybe he only changed his public stance. A whole lot of folk believe that is true. A whole lot of people believe he always favored gay marriage, but only said he was opposed to it for political reasons. Whatever. If Bill Maher can publicly announce that he believes what Mozilla did to Eich was wrong, why isn't Obama?
It would be the correct, moral, and Presidential thing to do. It would definetly be the Christian thing to do. What happened to Brendan Eich will continue to happen without a strong stand by national leaders. But you see, Obama, Eric Holder and other uber leftists leading our country (disguised as Democrats) love what happened to Brendan Eich. And because they loved it, they hope things like that will continue to happen. What does it say that Bill Maher is opening space, morally, between himself and Barack Obama? It says a whole lot.
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