"If you had the opportunity to donate to a Proposition 8 cause today, would you do so?"
"I hadn't thought about that. It seems that's a dead issue. I don't want to answer hypotheticals."
I think that response speaks for itself.
While I don't feel comfortable lynching someone based on contextually irrelevant beliefs, most of us see gay rights as an issue principally comparable to issues of slavery and suffrage. It's the denying of rights to "other people" for dubious reasons.
Hypothetically, if the CEO of another tech company was revealed to have political interests in slavery, would we feel the need to tip-toe so carefully?
"I hadn't thought about that. It seems that's a dead issue. I don't want to answer hypotheticals."
I think that response speaks for itself.
While I don't feel comfortable lynching someone based on contextually irrelevant beliefs, most of us see gay rights as an issue principally comparable to issues of slavery and suffrage. It's the denying of rights to "other people" for dubious reasons.
Hypothetically, if the CEO of another tech company was revealed to have political interests in slavery, would we feel the need to tip-toe so carefully?