Starbucks CEO holds his ground on gay marriage

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• 205 TAIWAN GAY MARRIAGE STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• SAME-SEX WEDDGS HAVE BOOSTED ENOMI BY $3.8 BILLN SCE GAY MARRIAGE WAS LEGALIZED FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, A NEW STUDY SAYS
• 44 CARTOON GAY MARRIAGE STOCK PHOTOS, IMAG & PICTUR
• STARBUCKS CEO HOLDS HIS GROUND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• HOWARD SCHULTZ TO ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE STARBUCKS SHAREHOLR: 'YOU CAN SELL YOUR SHAR'
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

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The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage. Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire.

Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007. Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event. For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.

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Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000. (TIF) isn't your grandfathers' ad: It shows a gay uple, a first for the jeweler.

But there's also a bs se to be ma: The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny held $790 ln buyg power, acrdg to a 2012 timate om the Human Rights Campaign, a leadg LGBT advocy group. Seattle-based Amazon (AMZN) also released an ad spot that featur a gay man buyg a Kdle e-rear. "Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " he wrote October.

44 CARTOON GAY MARRIAGE STOCK PHOTOS, IMAG & PICTUR

Google: Not only do Google (GOOG)have an ternal workg group for employe known as Gayglers, but ma a bold statement about LGBT rights ahead of the Wter Olympics Sochi last year. The pany joed protts of anti-gay polici Rsia by featurg a rabow-lored "Google doodle" on s homepage.

The rabow-lored Oreo was a high-profile nod to gay rights.

Starbucks: For CEO Howard Schultz, supportg gay rights meant directly nontg an vtor who claimed the pany's stance was erodg s bottom le. Patrick's Semary, offered the remarks as part of a panel on Gay Marriage held Jan.

STARBUCKS CEO HOLDS HIS GROUND ON GAY MARRIAGE

Social nservativ are not only ncerned about marriage, but also the rise of a gay and lbian culture.

Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.

HOWARD SCHULTZ TO ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE STARBUCKS SHAREHOLR: 'YOU CAN SELL YOUR SHAR'

The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians. In every class, for the past 20 odd years, I have ved a gay former stunt, Lee FzGerald, to speak on gay relatnships.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

My tent was two-fold: first to ve stunts to dialogue wh people different om themselv; send, to work to elimate, whatever small way I uld, homophobic attus on our mp and our muny.

The attus of Santa Clara stunts have evolved signifintly the last two s vis à vis gay and lbian relatnships. My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns. This is jt as te if the person is gay, lbian, or straight.

A gay or lbian orientatn is not a matter of choice but simply the way an dividual is. A person is born gay and lbian and grows up this way; is not a matter of cisn, one possibily among others for the mature dividual. G., Anglinism: re of blsg New Wtmster, Canada; nsecratn of Gene Robson as an openly gay bishop.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

"Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons" (CDF): nnot promote any form of civil regnn of same-sex unns, formally or materially.