Starbucks CEO tells shareholder to sell his shares if he doesn’t like gay ‘marriage’
SEATTLE, Washington , March 26, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - At the annual Starbucks shareholder 's meeting in Seattle last week, company CEO Howard Shultz told a shareholder that he should buy stocks in other coffee businesses if he didn't like Starbucks’ endorsement of same-sex "marriage." Shareholder Tom Strobhar had pointed to what he argued was a significant drop in sales following a boycott launched by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) protesting Starbucks’ support of homosexual "marriage" in Washington state . "In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earnings, shall we say politely, were a bit disappointing," said Strobhar according to a ChristianNews.net report. Strobhar questioned whether it was a prudent business move for Starbucks to risk share value by supporting gay "marriage." According to the Puget Sound Business Journal , Schultz, after interrupting Strobha...