Starbucks CEO does NOT want your business

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

by Victor Medina

24 Mar 2013

 

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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.
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>>>I have seen this story all over Facebook this weekend and I thought no way; just another FB legend.  Apparently not so.  I'm not a big protest/boycott kind of guy.  So many times the unintended consequences can be pretty harsh.  And I understand that not everybody agrees with me about my beliefs.  I also like to think I can dialogue, and respectfully discuss things with those I disagree with.  I also expect that if I am to respect you, you are to respect me.  I am an ordained Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church and I believe all that my faith teaches me.  I am naturally, not in support of doing anything with marriage that violates God's natural law and the teachings of His Church.  It's that simple.  I do not advocate hating any people for any reason, treating them disrespectfully or with any malice.  I kind of subscribe to the Jesus philosophy of last week's Gospel and the woman caught in the act of adultery.  I do not condemn you; now go and sin no more.  And as I subscribe to this; I must be aware of my own sinfulness.  And as an advocate of the sacramentality of marriage, why God ordained marriage for one man and one woman, I must be a great witness in my own marriage and call out those of us who too casually allow marriage between a man and a woman to fail all too often and all too easily!

In this story, I want to point out that Starbucks CEO just does not advocate for that which he believes, he tells all of us who don't believe like him to take a hike.  Don't invest in my business, don't buy my coffee, unless you believe like me.  If you are a backwards faith person who believes in traditional marriage, leave us alone at Starbucks.

As of today, consider it done!