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Yea, I don't really see an issue here. I'm sure you could pull up something like this and point fingers about a specific issue for anyone who has ever donated to any candidate. Plus, these individuals opinions are not representative of their company.

I'm more curious about what the purpose of attempting to smear IAC and OkC is.



Nobody's personal beliefs should be representative of the company. If the guy was a Catholic, would you say that Mozilla is a Catholic organization, or that he's going to make Catholic decisions?

You may not remember that President Kennedy was accused of being "controlled" by the Vatican when he was elected because he was the first (and remains the only) Roman-Catholic president, and people were freaked out he'd take orders from the Pope. Turned out not to be the case.

  To address fears that his being Catholic would impact his decision-making,
  he famously told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on
  September 12, 1960, "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am
  the Democratic Party candidate for President who also happens to be
  a Catholic. I do not speak for my Church on public matters – and
  the Church does not speak for me."[46] Kennedy questioned rhetorically 
  whether one-quarter of Americans were relegated to second-class
  citizenship just because they were Catholic, and once stated that, 
  "No one asked me my religion [serving the Navy] in the South Pacific."[47]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy


Slash and burn everything associated with someone who has a differing opinion is the most likely reason.




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