The President of NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, stunningly claims — despite all evidence to the contrary — that his boycott of Starbucks has stooped their ability to expand internationally.
Brian Brown, the president of the National Organization For Marriage, is stunningly claiming that “Dump Starbucks,” NOM’s flaccid boycott of international coffee colossus Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), has actually stopped their global expansion. Brown offers not one shred of proof, not even the names of the “many” countries he claims have refused to let the $15 billion Seattle-based java giant open stores, in an interview on a Catholic radio program.
Here’s the audio, captured and published by Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper.
“The media will say the boycotts have minimal or no effect,” Brown says. “The reality is that companies like Starbucks are trying to expand around the world, and as Americans stand up and say, ‘this is wrong,’ and they highlight that companies like Starbucks are supporting same-sex marriage, it forces the mask to come off.
“Starbucks to this day claims that they do not take positions on political issues, and because of the Dump Starbucks boycott, for example, many countries have looked at Starbucks and individuals that would be allowing Starbucks into the country have said, ‘no no no no,’ because Starbucks does endorse the redefinition of marriage.
“For global companies, it has an effect, both in America and abroad.
“Most importantly, though, how can we view it as moral to be giving our dollars to a company that directly is attacking our faith? …You have to take a stand at some point.â€
In the past five years, Starbucks’ share price has more than quadrupled, from $19.03 to a close yesterday of $77.87.Â
Starbucks, as of June, has 23,305 stores in 65 countries, including in Middle East countries (see chart, right) where NOM tried to get its “Dump Starbucks“ boycott to take off — it never did.
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