Forum: Weblog comments

starwed, Al:
IMHO, people are entitled to even have those views and express them. Discuss those with them in public, where, it belongs. Don't force them to go underground with those views and make secretive groups filled with hatred because they fell they can't talk about their views in public. The only way to convince people to let go of hatred is to show and discuss it in the public.
Censoring their views from the public is just as racist as you claim those people to be.

Planet is about people, not about topics or work. I find it inappropriate that a number of people do not federate their whole personal blog to Planet Mozilla. There might be a place for a work-only planet, but I don't want to read it. I want to read about the people in our community, with the whole spectrum of their thoughts, emotions, and activities, uncensored and unfiltered. If you want something else, you probably don't want Planet Mozilla, but some other collection of posts. Maybe http://planet.mozilla.org/projects/ instead?

Just as a note, my comments were in way broader context than this tiny matter of what the choice of words is for the legal union of gay couples. There seems to be a common thread that those who most loudly claim to be open for everything are very sensible and downright offending to anyone who doesn't share their views of the world.