Delurking momentarily, might I say that in a Mozilla context we have
found this:
On 26/07/15 21:11, James Salsman wrote:
I am of the often non-unanimous opinions that the
Foundation should, in
complete yet indirect accordance with its mission, take at least pro
forma and ideally active stances in favor of social issues such as free
public education through college, universal preventative health care,
income equality, gender wage equity, and greenhouse gas mitigation.
to be a spectacularly bad idea.
People support <ORGANIZATION> because they agree on the explicit goals
of <ORGANIZATION>. There is no guarantee whatsoever that they will agree
on other goals, and to make <ORGANIZATION> support them institutionally
risks alienating volunteers and supporters for negligible gains.
You may think it's obvious that anyone who supports the goals of
<ORGANIZATION> must also support these other "obviously good" things
("I
support them! So therefore every right-thinking person does!"), but I
would say that people are more complex than you think, and (at the very
least) you need to admit that people can be inconsistent, and that
should be OK.
Gerv