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“Siding with radical homosexuals has its price in this country,” Perkins said. “And in Starbucks case, the cost is about ten billion dollars.”
That’s right, the FRC chief says that the company’s decision to endorse marriage equality in its home state led to its recent troubles, while providing no evidence as to how NOM and its fewer than 50,000 fellow boycotters contributed to Starbucks’ drop in stock value.
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Said Perkins:
It didn’t take long for Starbucks to lose bucks over marriage. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington. In January, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said endorsing same-sex marriage would be good for business. Boy was he wrong! Siding with radical homosexuals has its price in this country. And in Starbucks case, the cost is about ten billion dollars. That’s how much the coffee giant’s lost in stock value since the campaign to Dump Starbucks got underway.
In the last eight months, the company’s missed sales projections and watched stocks dive from $61 to $48, for a loss of more than $10.2 billion. How many companies will fall for the lie that endorsing same-sex marriage will help business? J.C. Penney’s tried it. Target’s tried it. Now Starbucks. And every time, there’s a reason to believe that alienating millions of customers will directly affect a company’s bottom line. On the flip side, look at Chick-fil-A. They found out that supporting traditional values pays just as many cultural dividends as financial ones.
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Douche bag
Well damn, we lgbt are everything now a days, just because we all deserves equality rights.
I don’t believe this.
… HE’S-a-1st. class A-HOLE!!!
Never let facts get in your way, lol what an fake.
apparently the people who boycotted starbucks spent over $50k a piece every year. What a moron.
What Tony Perkins forgets is that gays drink coffee too. I’m gonna go out and buy me some Starbucks.
Um I’ve been going to Starbucks at least four days a wk the past month. They’ve been busier than ever! LOL
Stupid is as stupid does.
there was a boycott?
I don’t go to Starbucks, but I may just start going there now! I’ll be sure to let them know to thank this idiot.
Quite the opposite, not supporting LGBT hurts companies .
Delusional
starbucks ain’t goin anywhere you nincompoop …. just ask joe scarboro of msnbc
Tony Perkins is the new Terry Rakolta.
Starbucks stock prices in Jan 2012:started around $44.82 and have fluctuated and closed today at $51.17. Again, we have another conservative wingnut who doesn’t understand “arithmetic.” What a fool!
Time to send this turd back to his home planet!
I found this hard to believe.
This is hard to believe.
total BULLSHIT….it LED to a lack of bigots drinking coffee
Hey I’m still trying to understand why they think the president is the anti-christ…What will they say after he’s re-elected then complete his term?
Fact-checked: Star Buck’s stock went up during that period. It was not a 10 billion dollar loss, or even a loss at all. (McDonald’s stock went down during that period..fyi).
I hope people do their home work. Look in line and you will find that Starbucks stock rose 20.4% over last year and second quarter profit was 18.5 % higher. This years total is an increase of last years total of 3.4% or earnings of $3.3 billion. This lying, hate full, bigot group is just slime. I guess they have taken training from the republicans
Its amazing to see a company who believes in equal rights go down in buisness but a company does does believe in equal rights busisness goes up….please tell me our world is not screwed up in some way here people!
Moron.
Starbucks Profits Rise 10% in 1st Quarter 2012 – Record!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/starbucks-profits_n_1236722.html
look in the dictionary at the definition of “ass hat”. You’ll see Tony Perkins picture.
I wish Starbucks would sue him for slander. He can afford it! This is why they are labeled a hate group, for their lies.
Thats a lie They made a profit but failed to meet Wall streets expected revenue….god these ppl say They are godly. Whatever. Just more liars
That’s why Starbucks is busy as hell always, right? Some people.
“Radical homosexuals”? – since when is wanting to settle down and get married a radical notion? This MF wouldn’t know a radical homosexual if he visited SF in the 80s.
BS
Tony, can’t you find a better hobby?
This guy needs to go back under the moldy rock he crawled out from.
Liar, liar
The more they spout their lies, the greater chance folks might begin to believe them. A pervasive lie is as near to truth as it can get without actually having that honest quality.
most douche bags drink dunkins dirty dishwater anyways.
Thank you for the news
Insert palm into face.