During the Starbucks annual shareholders
meeting, CEO Howard Schultz had a clear message to send to investors who don’t
support gay marriage: he doesn’t want your business.
It’s one thing to stick to one’s beliefs, but
it’s another thing to allow those beliefs to cross the line and become
zealotry. It appears Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz crossed that line during the
meeting, mixing his belief system with business.
Schultz went on to claim that Starbucks strives
to “embrace diversity of all kinds.” He went on to tell a shareholder who
stands behind tradition marriage to sell his shares and invest elsewhere.
Forbes
reported that Schultz seemed hostile and intolerant of any shareholders who
objected to 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.
As for me, I will
no longer patronize Starbucks and I love their hot apple cider.
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