Conservative radio personality Glenn
Beck has warned that gay rights groups “are becoming nothing but a
terrorist organization.”
During his radio program, Beck, 50,
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.)
“It's being celebrated that somebody
who donated $1,000 six years ago has lost their job now,” Beck
said. “So, in addition of a ton of outrage by gay groups and
activists over Eich's donation … By the way, I hope that 'gay' is
currently the accepted term. I don't know if it's homosexual and I
don't know if it's queer.”
“I think, I think the accepted word
is 'gay' – I don't know anymore!” Beck screamed.
“Because you keep changing all the
rules, depending on how you feel. Or is it that it's not that you
feel that way. It's that these groups are becoming nothing but a
terrorist organization. That just by changing the language I can
lose my job, if I say homosexual, or gay, or queer. I could lose my
job. And so you never know. And so you keep everyone in fear. Is
that what it is?” (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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(Related: Gay
marriage foe NOM launches Mozilla boycott.)