No More Popes!

In response to the firing of the CEO of Mozilla because he refused to repent of making a campaign contribution to California's "Proposition 8," which sought to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, fifty supporters of same-sex marriage have made an important stand against gay-rights puritanism. 

Their common-sense proposal called on civil society to recognize the value in the freedom to dissent from popular opinion, in this case to oppose same-sex marriage.  Freedom of speech, what a concept!  Freedom to dissent on religious matters (and marriage is and always has been a religious matter, even if it is a secular religion) without fear. How novel! 

I'm not too interested in having anyone's Pope tell me how to think about marriage, let alone fire me if my ideas do not conform to local orthodoxy.

Opponents of same-sex marriage have, with just a small bit of defensiveness, recognized the gesture.  If we could get such attitudes into the mainstream culture we could have the makings of a revolution.