Eich was hounded out of his job.  It&#x27;s absolutely clear from the sequence of events.  You can argue that he quit his job to end the controversy, but that amounts to the same thing.<p>In 2008, Eich&#x27;s was the mainstream view.  Even Barack Obama stated in 2008 that he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman.<p>It&#x27;s ridiculous that someone should be considered an unacceptable <i>type of person</i> to be CEO because he donated $1,000 to a successful, mainstream proposition that <i>passed</i>, in a state of 35 million people, on an issue that Obama also agreed with!  Nor did the bill &quot;take away rights&quot;. Did all those people who quit the board or said nasty things about Brendan Eich vote for McCain-Palin in the 2008 elections?  Highly doubtful.<p>Mr. Eich in fact stated that his personal views would not color his performance in a leadership position, and that he had nothing against homosexuality.  When it became clear that he could not shake the controversy, he chose the high moral ground of resigning.<p>Losing this man, the inventor of Javascript and a key player at Mozilla.org for many years, was a real blow to the organization.  It&#x27;s never a good idea to politicize a technology organization whose mission is to create free and open tools for <i>everyone</i>, to be used all over the world by all sorts of people.