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Years after the pany's chairman's famo anti-gay screed, some people are still boyttg the popular pasta brand, but most seem to be eatg .

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BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS

After chairman Guido Barilla rebed gay fai on natnal rad, his CEO spent five years cleang up the pany’s reputatn. * barilla lgbt *

He said a vio posted to Facebook that he has "always rpected every person I've met, cludg gays and their fai, whout any distctns" and "never discrimated agast anyone. “I would never do a mercial wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect, but bee we don’t agree wh them, ” Barilla said on Italy’s bt-known rad talk show. If gay ctomers didn’t like that, they uld go buy another brand of pasta, he said.

DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?

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The chairman, who turned 60 last year and has five children, further clarified that he opposed adoptn by gay parents.

In 2013, the CEO of Barilla, one of the world’s biggt dried pasta brands, marred an otherwise anodyne terview about the pany’s legacy wh an egreg homophobic ment.

BARILLA EARNS GAY BOYTT, LEARNS TAKG SIS IS BAD FOR BS

Gay rights groups are boyttg Pasta Barilla after the pany's CEO, Guido Barilla, said Wednday on an Italian rad show, "I would never do an advert wh * barilla lgbt *

“I would never do a mercial wh a homosexual fay, ” Guido Barilla said live on the Italian statn Rad 24, “not for lack of rpect, but bee we don’t agree wh them. But the efforts, mendable as they are, may not have had a huge effect on Barilla’s bottom le — and ’s possible Guido’s homophobic ments didn’t eher. Acrdg to the Bloomberg report, Barilla’s revenue was better 2013, the year of the homophobic ment, than 2012.

Like Barilla, Chick-fil-A’s CEO has a history of makg homophobic ments. And both have CEOs who have ma homophobic ments the past.

The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once proclaimed he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.

PASTA MAKER BARILLA UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS

Barilla Pasta learns the hard way that gays spend $800 billn annually. * barilla lgbt *

The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once said he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.

BARILLA PASTA BOYTT URGED BY LGBT RIGHTS GROUPS FOLLOWG CHAIRMAN'S ANTI-GAY REMARKS

Pasta maker Barilla is hot water after makg anti-gay remarks on an Italian rad program this week. * barilla lgbt *

In September 2013, Guido Barilla, the chairman of Barilla Group, one of the world's leadg pasta manufacturers, engenred ntroversy and prompted lls for boytts when durg the urse of an terview wh an Italian rad program, he rpond to a qutn about whether he would ever feature a gay fay his pany's mercials by sayg (as roughly translated to English): "We won't clu gays our ads, bee we like the tradnal fay. If gays don't like , they n always eat another brand of pasta.

"I would never do (a mercial) wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect but bee we don't agree wh them.

PASTA MAKER BARILLA UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS

In the terview, Barilla said he opposed adoptn by gay parents, but was favour of allowg gay marriage, which is not legal Italy. His ment about advertisg was rponse to a direct qutn about whether he would ever feature a gay fay his pany's mercials.

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Pasta maker Barilla unr fire for anti-gay ments .

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