Conservative commentator George Will
has criticized gay rights activists for acting like “sore winners.”
Appearing on Fox's Special Report
with Bret Baier, Will, 72, weighed in on the resignation of
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.
Eich stepped down as CEO on Thursday
over a $1,000 donation to the campaign to approve Proposition 8,
California's 2008 voter-approved constitutional amendment restricting
marriage to heterosexual couples. Proposition 8 stood until last
year, when the Supreme Court left in place a lower court ruling
knocking it down.
(Related: Brendan
Eich steps down as Mozilla CEO over past support for Proposition 8.)
“In addition to the evidence,
redundant evidence, that progressives are for diversity in everything
but thought, it's an illusion of a new phenomenon,” Will said. “No
one likes sore losers, but now we have sore winners.”
The gay rights movement is “winning,”
Will
said, with a “speed and breadth that simply takes your breath
away.”
“Yet unsatisfied with victory, they
seem to want to stamp out and punish people for their previous
views,” Will added. (Eich
has not discussed his views on the subject.)
Will also chided gay rights activists
for being “sore winners” after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
rejected a bill that opponents said would allow an individual or
business to discriminate against gay and lesbian people based on
their religious faith.
(Related: Gay
marriage foe NOM launches Mozilla boycott.)