Televangelist Pat Robertson has weighed
in on the controversy surrounding the resignation of Brendan Eich as
CEO of Mozilla.
Eich lasted less than two weeks as CEO
of Mozilla, stepping down 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.)
“Here this man at Mozilla, Eich, had
given $1,000 about six or seven years ago - $1,000 – to a
proposition,” Robertson told The 700 Club viewers on Monday.
“[H]e's been forced out by gay activists, who said that was hate
speech to say that the union between a man and a woman is marriage –
that's hate speech.”
“Well, the Bible then is full of
hate. If that's the way it is, and God almighty is a hater. You …
if that's the way they want to define it. And I, of course, don't
agree.”
Robertson joins a growing chorus of
conservatives outraged by Eich's decision to step down as CEO,
including Rush Limbaugh, who denounced “fascism on the left, Glenn
Beck, who
accused gay rights groups of “becoming terrorist organizations,”
George Will, who
called gay rights activists “sore winners”, and Newt
Gingrich, who
blamed the “new fascism.”