The CEO of Target told shareholders Wednesday that the company would remain neutral on a proposed anti-marriage equality amendment in Minnesota, the state where Target is based.
During the company’s annual stockholder meeting in Pittsburgh, CEO Gregg Steinhafel was asked whether Target would take a stance on next year’s Minnesota ballot initiative, which would amend the state’s constitution to ban marriage equality.
“Our position at this particular time is that we are going to be neutral on that particular issue, as we would be on other social issues that have polarizing points of view,” Steinhafel said, according to St. Paul’s Pioneer Press.
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