OK...and actually, he wasn't fired, he resigned voluntarily-Mozilla offered him a position of comparably high pay and influence within the organization- response to public outrage over his massive financial support for a ballot measure (Proposition 8) that unjustly stripped LGBTQ+ Californians of a right nobody had any reason to strip them of- the right to marry the person they loved, the right to be legally recognized as the person they HAD to be. An actual small-c conservative would have regarded Initiative 8 as an intrusion into people's private lives and opposed it on those grounds.

There's nothing to debate on this.

We know sexual orientation is innate.

We know LGBTQ+ can't stop being LGBTQ+, that "conversion therapy" essentially never works, and that it is none of the state's business to limit who is and who is not allowed to marry.

Eich was not oppressed. He had the right to speak, but that right never guaranteed he would face no consequences for what he said.

This is what makes a lot of people incredibly annoyed at modern conservatives- they are trying to undo lived, established reality, they are trying to reverse settled law and reimpose oppression, and they are fighting for the right to say that some people should be welcome to live their truths in this country but some should not be.

There is no reason to debate settled reality and established rights.