GOP’s Shapiro: It’s ok for Holocaust-denier to head major US company; IRS leaked Prop 8 donor info

Youngish Republican whippersnapper Ben “Friends of Hamas” Shapiro, who is an editor-at-large at the conservative Web site Breitbart, and has been serving more generally of late as the it-girl of anti-gay intolerance in the modern GOP, said today during a BBC interview that conservatives would be fine with a Holocaust-denier running a major American company.

The interview on the BBC’s “World Have Your Say” show, which I was a guest on as well, was discussing the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, following a firestorm of online protest, and protest from his own employees and board of directors, over the fact that Eich had donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign, and had supported the presidential candidacy of Republican bigot Pat Buchanan.

During the show, Shapiro also claimed, incredibly (and incorrectly), that the federal Internal Revenue Service “leaked” the fact of Eich’s Prop 8 donation, which Shapiro claims (again incorrectly) was “anonymous.”

Proposition 8 was the successful campaign in 2008, led by the Catholic church, the religious right, and the Mormons, to repeal the right of gay couples to marry in California. Prop 8 supporters also hoped that passage of the measure would dissolve the already-performed legal marriages of 18,000 gay families, many of which had children.

more: http://americablog.com/2014/04/ben-shapiro-holocaust-mozilla-gay-brendan-eich-prop-8.html

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So anti-marriage equality persons are equal to Holocaust deniers? I am cool with that analogy.