L.A. Film Festival Director Donated Money to Yes on 8

I agree that we should vote with our dollars. But this was not a contribution that a company made in favor of Prop 8. This was a private contribution made by a private citizen. If this man should lose his job for his private religious beliefs then how is that different than firing someone because they are gay? If we cannot see the obvious hypocrisy here...just think what could happen to the gay community if the social/political tides turn drastically back in the other direction. If the gay community condones the persuction of someone for their private beliefs then that can be a scary, scary thing for the gay community!

I'm so pleased to see the complete resurrection of McCarthyism as a political tactic. I guess the blacklist is next. Oh what fun!

What a bunch of hypocritical garbage...this was a man's personal belief and personal preference. Shame on those that "outed" him and forced him to make a drastic decision to save the Festival...

Exactly, Janis. What good does it do to berate people for they're opinions. If I support gay marriage and put money towards enacting that, what difference is there in what he did? Should he lose his career because of his viewpoint? Absolutely not! How dare any of you purport to be tolerant? Only tolerant of others if they share your views, you mean. Shame on you!

I support prop. 8 and support Mr. Raddons agency to exercise his feedom of religion. What hippocrites !

Michael, you say that its "dedicated to diversity" yet does nothing about someone directly connected doing the opposite Richard Raddon, shame on you for your fear of standing up to these so called "dedicated to diversity" folks!

He is the Director of The Los Angeles Film Festival. It is his baby, he's in charge of it. Boycotting it would ruin him. There should be picketing as well. Many of his employees are gay and we should be the voice for them.

The difference between boycotting EBay and Film Independent is that Meg Whitman is the former CEO and current board member and Raddon is an employee of a non-profit organization. Raddon's an employee of Film Independent. The organization has not taken a position on Proposition 8 and can't control - nor should it control - the political contributions of its employees. While I have been involved in the No on Prop. 8 campaign, I understand that the rationale approach is to dialogue with those who are "movable." It is a mistake, and a waste of resources and energy, to boycott an organization that is dedicated to diversity (including gays and lesbians) rather than those with real power.

money talks bullshit walks,so if people want to do things that are reprehensible then they need to learn a lesson, and in these days of money worries what better way to learn than boycotts with money losses,,no one is bigger than the next guy believe me. If gays used the n word blacks would be out in force to correct that, so get out and avoid paying for peoples ideology...remember Obama won because economy trumps ideology

I enjoy it whenever someone says "boycotting won't help." You see, everyone has two options: to participate or withdraw from society. Everyone who withdraws surrenders their decisions to other people, like me, who participate. So to everyone who's not supporting boycotts, thank you. You have surrendered your opinions to me. I'll take over from here. Go back inside where everything's warm and cozy, and you can pretend like nothings wrong.