Posted on 03/21/2013 7:17:53 PM PDT by Fzob
Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz on Wednesday defended the company’s decision to support marriage equality, and told investors that if they weren’t on board, they could sell their stock and go elsewhere.
Howard Schultz Last year, the Seattle-based company announced its support for legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington state, prompting opponents of the measure — notably the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage — to launch a boycott of Starbucks.
At the company’s annual meeting Wednesday, shareholder Tom Strobhar described Starbucks’ first-quarter performance as disappointing, and suggested that was due in part to the boycott.
“In the first fill quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earrings — shall we say politely — were a bit disappointing,” Strobhar said.
Unfazed, Schultz replied that the company’s decision to support marriage equality was not the bottom line, but about respecting diversity, reported KPLU.
There is nothing unequal about traditional marriage. Gays are free to participate in traditional marriage. Obama has.
Apart from the Obunga administration, Starsux is biggest fraud perpetrated on humankind. Four bucks and more for hot bilge water with the aftertaste of a Jamaican whore’s armpit. P.T. Barnum was right.
I’ll never go to that dump again.
FagBucks will be toast in 24months.
We bought their coffee but no more. We use to give out their gift cards to family and business associates, no more. I don’t buy Ben and Jerry products either.
“Tried Starbucks one time, never made it out of the parking lot before I tossed it.”
Do you have a Peet’s in your area? Irrespective of their politics, Starbuck’s Coffee has always tasted like snake p!$$ to me the few times I have tried it.
And while you are getting rid if this socialist pariah, you might want to say adios to CVS Pharmacy like I did today for their “new” policy on trying to “control” the weight of their employees. Mayor Bloomberg must be on their board of directors.
Jebus H. - what does one do with pork rectums?
you should see the size of a coupe of the gals at my local CVS drive-thru.
one of them, I honestly don’t know how she can be on her feet all day. Almost as wide as she is tall.
and I’m not saying that to be funny.
isn't that what being gay is all about?
“you should see the size of a coupe of the gals at my local CVS drive-thru.”
And please explain to me how more than half of the nurses in most hospitals look like Rosie O’Donnell too! It is sad, but CVS Naziism is over the top. “You must tell us how much you weigh as a condition of continued employment, and if we don’t like the number you will have to do something about it or be fired!”
oh yeah, thats right, i manage to brew my own coffee for less than $5/cup anyway...
buck farsucks and their homo makeout day agenda...
after the quueeeers finish using the booth, the creamer tastes like $h!t anyways...
run them out of your town
“marriage equality” is such a stupid term
“Marriage equality”. ROTFL! Is that what they’re calling it now? Stooges.
Hey, how about a man and four wives?
Or a brother and sister?
Woman and 500 illegals wanting to become citizens?
Lots of sexual couplings.
Is Starbucks going to make the call on all of them? Idiots.
Gay marriage equality is an oxymoron if I ever heard one. I guess this means that all that work populating society and grooming the next generation doesn’t qualify heterosexuals with any significant status.
No stock and I woudn’t drink his crappy swill if it was free!
I have bought those frappachinos but no more...
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