Starbucks CEO tells anti-gay investor: 'sell your shares'
The CEO of coffee chain Starbucks is earning praise from same sex marriage advocates for the company's staunch support of gay rights, including urging a group of activist shareholders to sell their shares if they don't like the company's policies.
At the Starbucks annual general meeting on Friday, chief executive Howard Schultz was accosted by Tom Strobhar, the head of a group called the National Organization for Marriage, an activist group that has lobbied hard against recent legislative moves to legalize same sex marriage and other contentious gay rights issues.
The NOM had called for a boycott of Starbucks locations after it emerged in 2012 that the ubiquitous chain of coffee restaurants was outspoken in favour of gay rights in its internal diversity policies. At the annual meeting, Strobhar suggested the company's support of gay rights was bad for business, as it was costing the company sales it might otherwise have had.
"If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 per cent you got last year, it’s a free country," Schultz said. "You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much." His reaction drew loud applause from the audience.
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Gotta give props where props are due! 
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but I'm trying to praise the good where I find it, as well as call out the bad stuff.
There's too much of it out there, and I can't wrap my brain around it.
Glad you're not there any more.
