A well written post. I agree completely. The only thing I would add is that, eh could have managed it a little better, maybe made a gesture to the community that he no longer feels that way or that he understood what he did was wrong and basically show leadership.

He didn't do any of those things and I don't know if that means that he cannot bring himself to support gay marriage or what? A lot of people have been saying that people who protested should have turned off javascript or something. Please. He represents an organization not a technology and that organization has products that are identifiable and easily avoided. Javascript is too technical for people to really understand. Mozilla is the symbol.