Starbucks CEO: If You Support Traditional Marriage, We Don’t Want Your Business Read

[General of Darkness]

Starbucks JEW CEO: If You Support Traditional Marriage, We Don’t Want Your Business (http://joemiller.us/2013/03/starbucks-ceo-no-tolerance-for-traditional-marriage-supporters/)
24 Mar 2013
homosexuality (http://joemiller.us/tag/homosexuality/), Starbucks (http://joemiller.us/tag/starbucks/), traditional marriage (http://joemiller.us/tag/traditional-marriage/)
by Victor Medina





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http://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/dump-starbucks-150x150.png (http://joemiller.us/2013/03/starbucks-ceo-no-tolerance-for-traditional-marriage-supporters/dump-starbucks/)At the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don’t want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to “embrace diversity of all kinds,” he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.



According to a report by Forbes, Schultz seemed a bit intolerant of any Starbucks shareholders who opposed gay marriage for moral or religious reasons. During the meeting, shareholder Tom Strobhar (who founded the Corporate Morality Action Center) pointed out that after the company voiced its support for a referendum backing gay marriage in Washington state, a boycott by traditional marriage supporters caused a drop in sales revenue. Schultz told him “You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company” if he did not agree with the company’s pro-gay marriage stand.
Read more from this story HERE (http://www.examiner.com/article/starbucks-ceo-no-tolerance-for-traditional-marriage-supporters).


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[Serpo]

Even the name sounds gay ............................... star bucks

[vacuum]

Ok, no more starbucks for me ever again

[EE_]

http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/2009/04/26/logo_lands_starbucks_in_middle_east_brewhaha/logo_lands_starbucks_in_middle_eastbrewhaha.jpeg.s ize.xxlarge.letterbox.jpeg

[StreetsOfGold]

I, for one will have no problem complying with this request, i just hope everyone who hears about this feels the same way and takes him at his word.

[Cebu_4_2]

http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/2009/04/26/logo_lands_starbucks_in_middle_east_brewhaha/logo_lands_starbucks_in_middle_eastbrewhaha.jpeg.s ize.xxlarge.letterbox.jpeg

Alright man, they DO NOT have the Izzy star on the logo.

[Neuro]

Starbucks in Istanbul, has pretty much lost all their business, during the riots in Taksim a week ago, they refused to give refuge to protesters under heavy gas attack from the police. Now Starbucks are fucked!

[Spectrism]

I like the Starbucks dark roast coffees. No more.

I will find other cafes to patronize. I also roast much of my own green coffee now.

[Hitch]

CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don’t want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to “embrace diversity of all kinds,” he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.

This CEO is an idiot. He's not "embracing diversity", he's booting out all married folks and only welcoming gay people. If everyone in a Starbucks is gay, that is not diverse at all. To have diversity you need to have variety.

Why doesn't he embrace diversity even further, and boot out all white folks, or all Asian folks...

[EE_]

http://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/our-diversity-is-our-strength-mcdonalds-starbucks-blockbuster-walmart-nike-tommy-hilfiger.jpg

[Hatha Sunahara]

No Gaybucks for me either. This CEO guy must have forgotten that people have a choice where to get their coffee. He's probably counting on the short memory of the masses. His business will drop off until people forget what he said, and then it will be back to normal. I really can't hurt them by staying away, because I never go there anyway.


Hatha

[Ponce]

I have never been in one of those.......$5.00 for a caffe lathe?, coffe with whipped milk?......they are charging you for the fancy name and not for what is in the cup.

V

[vacuum]

No Gaybucks for me either. This CEO guy must have forgotten that people have a choice where to get their coffee. He's probably counting on the short memory of the masses. His business will drop off until people forget what he said, and then it will be back to normal. I really can't hurt them by staying away, because I never go there anyway.


Hatha

Even if you don't go there to begin with, you can just inform/remind people about his statement indefinitely into the future.

[Hitch]

Even if you don't go there to begin with, you can just inform/remind people about his statement indefinitely into the future.

You also have to boycott their packaged coffee in the grocery stores.

Go with Peet's coffee, it's much better. Peet's coffee should respond.....Everyone is welcome in our shops, even happily married folks.

[gunDriller]

there's always Peet's. and hundreds of small chains and thousands of individual coffee shops.

it's a little odd that Schwartz would feel a need to make a pronouncement on the issue.

he could have said, "we're a coffee shop, not a church".


maybe this incident will have "legs" and Schwartz will get the boot.

[mick silver]

then you want get it . but i have never payed 5 bucks for coffee , i guess thats why i own gold an silver