Dan Calabrese, editor-in-chief of Best
of Cain, a website described as “the web extension of the
phenomenon that is The Herman Cain Show,” has compared gays
to Star Trek's Borg, a pseudo-race bent on using forced
assimilation to turn other species into cybernetic organisms obedient
to the Borg Collective.
Calabrese used the analogy in the
course of criticizing gay rights advocates who called on Brendan Eich
to step down as CEO of Mozilla because his opposition to marriage
equality was not a good match for the company's mission statement and
culture.
(Related: Brendan
Eich's support for Prop 8 was rare for Silicon Valley.)
“You will be assimilated,”
Calabrese
wrote. “Resistance is futile.”
“People who are advocating a
righteous cause do not seek to silence all dissent and destroy those
who dare to disagree. They let the truth of their position speak for
itself, and they don't fear those who mistakenly fail to see the
virtue of their position.”
“This movement is evil, not because
homosexuality is a 'worse sin' than other sins, but because its
champions are trying to not only silence but in many cases destroy
those who disagree with them. The gay movement understands
something. They understand that in order for their movement to
ultimately succeed, they need to turn the entire culture into a
mindless army of obedient adherents like the Borg on Star Trek.”
“And no one acts this way when their
cause is righteous. They know they don't need to. They act this way
when their cause is evil, and freedom of speech is their enemy
because, ultimately, truth is their enemy.”
It should be noted that Eich donated
$1,000 to the campaign to approve Proposition 8.