THE POLITICAL SIDE

FROM FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL

ITS POLITICS AS USUAL or IS IT?       

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If Starbucks is a part of your daily grind, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is giving customers a reason to reconsider. A portion of every cup of coffee helps to fund the corporate assault on marriage, the group says. To bring greater awareness to the company's ultra-liberal ties, NOM is launching an international campaign called "Dump Starbucks," targeting global business partners in particular. "We are today announcing a sustained public campaign calling on Starbucks to stop waging war against marriage, and the views of more than half its worldwide customers. Starbucks should be in the business of offering all its diverse customers a great cup of coffee, not taking sides against the views of its customers, vendors, and employees around. The irony, of course, is CEO Howard Schultz's recent pronouncement that Starbucks is a post-political, post-partisan company. Of course, that turned out to be a grande exaggeration, since the franchise directly and publicly endorsed a bill to redefine marriage for the entire state of Washington. Jonathan Baker, head of NOM's Corporate Fairness Project, flew to Seattle to confront Schultz and asked his board if homosexual "marriage" really is "core to the Starbucks brand," as his vice president put it in January. "Yes," Schultz said. Another shareholder spoke up and asked how it could be in the company's interest to wage a cultural war. Schultz abruptly cut off questions. If you'd like to learn about NOM's "Dump Starbucks" campaign or sign the pledge, click here.

I begin here and first the above paragraphs are from Family Research Council.  Now lets look at the fall out from this for Starbucks.  Remember some months back that the coffee chain closed some 600 stores, WOW!  Now they want to take on the moral majority, in case no one told them the majority of Americans are still in favor of moral laws and regulations so they are going to feel the financial pinch in the long run big time, count on it.  Personally I am in favor of giving up on all my benefits at the coffee house and make my own from now on, I make a better cup of flavored coffee any way so I save big time on the costs as well!

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