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USA: Starbucks Says Anti Gay Boycott Has No Effect

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Starbucks BoycottStarbucks has said a boycott over its support for gay marriage has had no impact on its business. “We’re not seeing any impact,” Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson told Seattle alternative The Stranger.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation’s most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, launched its “Dump Starbucks” boycott after Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defended the company’s decision to back Washington state’s recently-approved gay marriage law.

An online petition by the group SumOfUs.org thanking Starbucks for its support has outpaced boycott pledges.

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HI: Anti-Gay Congressman Wins Election in Hawaii After Democrats Squabble

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Republican Honolulu council member Charles Djou, who won Saturday’s special congressional election in Hawaii, was the least gay-friendly of the three leading candidates looking to fill the seat vacated by Democratic Neil Abercrombie, who left Congress to run for governor.

In fact, Djou was the only candidate to come out against the state’s civil unions bill, which is currently awaiting a decision from Governor Linda Lingle. He issued a statement saying that one of his Democratic rivals, state senate president Colleen Hanabusa, had “blatantly ignored the will” of Hawaii residents by supporting civil unions.

“Hawaii voters have spoken very clearly in support of traditional marriage,” he added, referring to a 1998 constitutional amendment that allowed legislators to ban marriage equality, which they did. Djou also supports the antigay Defense of Marriage Act, the Associated Press reports.

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