I mentioned the case of Brendan Eich a little while ago. He\u2019s the genius that basically invented JavaScript, which web programmers are very familiar with and have been using since 1995. He co-founded Mozilla, the company that produces, among other things, the Firefox web browser. He was going to be the company\u2019s CEO recently, until someone noticed he gave $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort in California to keep marriage to mean one-man-one-woman. He was run out of the company for what I called a Thought Crime. He was eminently qualified to be the CEO of the company, but because he had the politically incorrect idea that marriage should mean what it\u2019s meant for millennia, he was pressured to resign. There were no allegations that he had ever treated someone badly because of their sexual orientation, but he had, according to some, the wrong idea<\/i> about marriage, and therefore he was unfit to be CEO of the technology<\/i> company he helped create.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what I want to stress here. In every other way<\/i>, he was qualified for the job, but he had opinions that some disagreed with, and they created an atmosphere where Eich could not function in that job. That<\/i>, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely what the word \u201cintolerance\u201d means. The irony is that those who created that atmosphere would very likely consider themselves the tolerant ones. The sad part is, they are unable to see intolerance in themselves because of the way they have redefined the word \u201cintolerance\u201d to mean \u201cdisagreeing with me\u201d.<\/p>\n
That was exhibit A. Exhibit B showed up a couple weeks ago<\/a> when twin brothers Jason and David Benham were green-lit to host a new show on Home and Garden TV \u2013 HGTV \u2013 about fixing up dilapidated houses for families in need. Who in the world could be against that?<\/p>\n Well, in a radio interview, David Benham said this, and made some people mad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We don\u2019t realize that, okay, if 87 percent of Americans are Christians and yet we have abortion on demand, we have no-fault divorce, we have pornography and perversion, we have a homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation, we have adultery. We even have allowed demonic ideologies to take our universities and our public school systems while the church sits silent and just builds big churches.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n So this is a rant against an apathetic church that doesn\u2019t stand up for what it believes in. And he lists off several issues that the Christian church, in general, does find wrong. Not all of them agree on all of the issues, true, but the larger point he is making is that all this is happening while the churches build bigger buildings but too many don\u2019t actually do<\/i> anything about the issues they do agree are problems. A fair point.<\/p>\n But did you catch the problem? The blog Right Wing Watch did. These ideas expressed by the Benhams were simply not politically correct and did not line up with their opinions, so they \u201ctolerantly\u201d screamed loud and long over it, and HGTV rolled over, cancelling the show before it even aired.<\/p>\n The real problem here, aside from more instances of being judged guilty of Thought Crimes by the \u201ctolerant\u201d Left, is that this was no fan outcry (the show hadn\u2019t even aired yet), nor a huge outcry. One blog with, I guess in the eyes of HGTV, enough influence, was enough to get them to cave in to the bullying and drop the show. A few folks, who can muster the required offense and indignation, are enough to shut down people who are, again, qualified for their job, but whose thoughts on unrelated issues are not orthodox enough for the Left.<\/p>\n Are you seeing a pattern here?<\/p>\n\n