"So, the board of a private company appoints someone as CEO who is gay, many of the stakeholders of the company (employees, outside developers, companies whose products are accessed by the other company’s products) object and decide to act in their own personal or private capacity to complain and/or boycott, and ultimately as a result — and without governmental intervention at any level — the CEO decides his presence in the position is not in the interest of the success and welfare of the private company and chooses to resign."
No, it isn't different -- in fact that's kinda the point. Do you really think there aren't groups, communities, and companies who would (at least tacitly) prevent such a thing from happening?
But y'all don't think that's a problem, it's only when it goes in the other direction that it's a tragedy, a lynching, a bullet in the head. The backlash against this is ridiculous.
Kinda different all of a sudden, huh.