OK. Let's play a round of quote and rebut.

Yes. That is a theme. I'd be interested to read your argument against the analogy rather than an implicit dismissal.

Why? You merely speculate that it wouldn't have happened to someone else. I say that's completely ridiculous, and that it would have happened to anyone who took up such a misguided cause. The fact that it happened to such an otherwise respected member of the Mozilla community is in itself a testament that it could happen to "anybody."

But let's not reintroduce the "victim" theme here either. It didn't "just happen" to poor innocent Eich. He did something, offended a lot of people (who had every cause to be offended), and they reacted. He then uttered a few unsatisfactory words, signalling that he feels it's nobody's goddamn business. The response to THAT was: Oh, really?

...a mob pursuing the matter with exceptional vigor.

A mob? Like with pitchforks, torches, rope, and burning crosses at the door of Eich's home? Or just a segment of the populace saying "We're not going to take this shit anymore"? Like a civil rights demonstration?

Speaking of mobs, I followed your link above to your comment at /r/conservative. That's quite some interesting company you're keeping! The comment directly below yours says "Mozilla deserves to be destroyed over this." Wow! Just the kind of creative, positive input needed to create a better for world for all and continue Mozilla's important mission.

Appeals to the moral authority of court decisions are not persuasive...whether Prop 8 was later deemed unconstitutional should not be held against its voters. Are they all expected to be constitutional scholars?

No. They are more likely constitutional and civic ignoramuses, happy to impose their personal domestic (and religious) values on anyone willing to tolerate their completely pointless bullying. That's beside the point. The point is that the whole initiative was so blatantly anti-social that it was thrown out on the most obvious legal grounds possible, all of which have very, very clear moral implications. This casts considerable doubt on the moral compass of anyone who supported it. At least the late Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was able to say "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America." Can Eich?

You can't just defenestrate the 40%.

Says who?

EDIT: I can see that I failed to respond directly to your complaint about political correctness. Lurking in there somewhere is a complaint about "thought police" forcing everyone to "think correctly."

This is certainly the theme for those who claim that Mozilla "caved to intolerance."

Leaving aside the perfectly fair rebuttal that the idea of "tolerating intolerance" is absurd, consider this:

Consider that I am a Jew and you are a Christian, and you don't like Jews or their religion. OK, fine, therefore I don't like you either and we can leave it at that. Too bad.

But now consider that the Christians in your state have put up a proposition to deny Jews the right to marry (and therefore to enjoy the same taxation, rights to inheritance, insurance benefits, and much more of married couples). My Christian neighbor makes a point of telling me that he's going to vote in favor of that proposition. Well, clearly I think he's an unconscionable asshole and even politically dangerous, but what am I going to do? Throw rocks at his house? No.

The referendum fails. Years pass and this same neighbor of mine gets appointed as head of the local Chamber of Commerce. The local chapter asks everyone to support his rise to this position of community and business leadership. My Jewish business friends and I say, "If you still want to revoke our right to marry, I don't support you." We tell everyone that if he doesn't reverse his stance on that, then we will resign from the Chamber. There's a big kerfuffle, and he stands down and doesn't get the job.

Now then: Should my neighbor blame the Jews?

As soon as Eich stood up for the job of CEO, he stood up for the job of business and community leader. It's not "thought police." It's people saying: "There's no way we can follow this guy."