I would like to say that I want to avoid the extreme of keeping tabs on how other people express themselves, like who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. The case of the CEO of a large company, Mozilla, is probably unusual. Then again, so is a proposition like Prop. 8, which (for a few years) prevented other people from marrying. So I think this case can be a very bad guide for the more “ordinary” situations where someone brings up their religion, or some political belief, or says something silly, at work or at home. We’re all human, we all make mistakes, and (in my opinion) there’s very rarely any reason to “escalate” disagreements.

Happily, most of life’s situations aren’t at the level of (a hypothetical example) “the CEO of Texaco gave $1000 to the Ku Klux Klan???!!!”