Starbucks CEO Supports Gay Marriage - Tells Investor To Take His Money Elsewhere - Granite Grok

Starbucks CEO Supports Gay Marriage – Tells Investor To Take His Money Elsewhere

We'd Rather be PC than have your money!
We’d Rather be PC than have your money!
Gay Marriage or bust! And that might well be the outcome if CEO Howard Schultz is not careful!

You see, even as we joke about ‘Latte-Sipping Liberals’, Starbucks takes its left-wing trendsetting role very seriously – lefty musicians, multiculturism, only the New York Times to read, support for Gay Marriage, and more.

Well, it’s their business, and as long as the board and investors go along, and they are making money, it’s their prerogative to choose their themes, and in effect, choose their customers – free association and all that.

H/T Godfather Politics
H/T Godfather Politics
There’s this from Godfather Politics, and also from Forbes:

Starbucks has made no secret about their support for gay rights. A year ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that the company was supporting the pro same-sex marriage bill being pushed in the state of Washington. He even told Tom Strohbar, a Starbucks shareholder and founder of The Corporate Morality Action Center:

“We believe it’s defensible – but we’re not reaching that decision to in any way offend you or anyone else. And I would say candidly, since we made that decision there has not been any dilution whatsoever in our business.”

Last week, Starbucks held its annual shareholder’s meeting and shareholder Tom Strohbar was in attendance. Noting that a recent boycott launched against Starbucks by the National Organization for Marriage has resulted in a significant decrease in sales, Strohbar asked Shultz:

“In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earnings, shall we say politely, were a bit disappointing.”

Aware of Strohbar’s Christian views on marriage and his opposition to the company’s stand on same-sex marriage, Schultz replied:

“If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38% you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.”

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Nice! Always classy, those Liberals!

Now, I’m not saying you should stay away, or disinvest – it’s a free country, after all – BUT if this news offends you, there’s other coffee, and other investments that don’t stick their, ahem, rainbow, in your face! Know what I mean?

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