Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Purge

Mozilla's ouster of its CEO over his views on same-sex marriage is nothing like the civil-rights movement.

April 4, 2014 at 10:09 PM UTC

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Silicon Valley has no use for Brendan Eich. Photographer: David Maung/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Farhad Manjoo, of the New York Times, says that Brendan Eich had to go as chief executive officer of Mozilla Corp.

Eich, who donated money in 2008 to a political group that opposed same-sex marriage, resigned from the maker of Firefox yesterday under pressure because of his views. Mozilla is a community with a public-spirited mission, Manjoo argues, and Eich's "views on gay marriage might have posed some danger to that community."