Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
He took it seriously enough to stick with it even when it started to become obvious that it would have a significant negative influence on his CEO career, until he eventually resigned over it.

Threats towards human rights (some here are probably disagreing with that human rights are at stake here, but that's another matter), are usually not met with tolerance. Stomp them out before they regain the strength they had when they were legal. That's the normal treatment.

Worth noticing is that he did take flak about it in 2012 when it became publically known. But since he wasn't a CEO, the response was much weaker. So it isn't something new, it's something that got reignited when the stakes got higher.
Actually he refused to discuss it.

It is also stupid for the winning side to press the issue. Even more so as they did not win by a vote of the people but in the courts.

It was a continuous and divisive issue and this does not win friends or bring a happy meeting of the minds.

It only brings out the resentment and brings all the bad feelings back to the surface.

If a group is asking for acceptance and tolerance you don’t get it by attacking former opponents and dredging the whole matter back to the surface unless you want to fight your battle over again.

Anyone with even half a brain would shut up and move on with life.

Here’s what veteran LGBT activist Andrew Sullivan recently wrote on his blog about the rising tide of fascism in his own movement: “If this is the gay rights movement today — hounding our opponents with fanaticism — then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”