The jackbooted tolerance enforcers strike again

Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of the web browser company Mozilla, has been forced out of his position because a little over five years ago he donated $1000 to the cause of Proposition 8, California's law that affirms the thousands-year-old normal-people understanding of marriage.

The way he was forced out was textbook totalitarian thuggery:

 a huge outcry from thousands of employees and Silicon Valley residents,  after  half of the Mozilla Foundation board resigned -- yes, resigned! -- and OKCupid blocked web surfers from accessing their site through the Firefox portal. 

You have to hand it to the Freedom-Haters.  They are flat-out experts at manipulating language, using cultural institutions to establish society-wide standards of acceptable opinion, and isolating and demonizing anyone who insists on embracing views outside those parameters.

Homosexuality makes a marvelous battleground from their standpoint.  Once they'd ensured that the term "gay rights" was an inextricable part of our lexicon (and because people so rarely think about freedom anymore, they never stopped to consider what a bastardization of the concept of a "right" it was), the rest fell into place quite quickly.  Gender fluidity is now respected as a legitimate subject for academic study, as a personal trait that must be taken seriously in corporations and municipalities.  It was a perfect way for Freedom-Haters to complete the stigmatization of Christianity.  It permits the state at all levels to parse our behavior, words and thoughts.  The fundamental transformation is now so complete that conservative homosexuals are demonized with the same degree of fierceness as anyone else resisting the Great Leveling Project.  Just ask Brandon Ambrosino about his experience at Ezra Klein's new venture, Vox.

And you don't have to even mention a term like "gay" or "homosexual" in your expression of affirmation for the normative.  Those terms appeared nowhere in the recent Arizona bill that Brewer declined to sign.  Ditto Eich's having monetarily backed up his viewpoint on marriage:

 It is worth noting, for those who make this charge, that so far as the public record is concerned, he has never registered an opinion on the morality of homosexuality per se, and his firm is as welcoming of gay employees as any in its industry. All he did was write a $1,000 check to an organization dedicated to the previously unremarkable proposition that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, a position that was endorsed by the voters of California and is held today by many people of good will, including some who are gay themselves. 

The truth is that, as you go through your day in post-America, interacting with colleagues, those who have been your friends, relatives and public officials, scrolling through your Facebook newsfeed,  you are surrounded by enemies who will not tolerate your liberty, your basic sovereignty as an individual.

You may choose, for the sake of considerations like your career, or a desire to be popular, or for family comity, to maintain a civil demeanor as you are insulted, marginalized and threatened.  But you are no longer unaware.  The war for America's soul is never not present.