The Supreme Court lg on same-sex marriage may have sparked bate all over the untry, but many the fashn dtry, long a platform for progrsive gay rights, embraced such equaly years ago.
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NORDSTROM BACKS GAY MARRIAGE MEMO TO EMPLOYE
Nordstrom backs gay marriage memo to employe * blake nordstrom gay *
Has jumped to the ntroversial gay marriage bate by openly supportg the rights of gay and lbians to Seattle retailer jos other proment Washgton rporatns such as Starbucks Corp. “It is our belief that our gay and lbian employe are entled to the same rights and protectns marriage provis as all our employe, ” the memo ntu, addg that “the cisn is nsistent wh our long-time philosophy of clivy and equaly.
”Steppg to a lightng-rod issue is almost guaranteed to w Nordstrom both hardy praise and heavy cricism, siar to other pani that have exprsed opns on gay marriage the ed a stir this summer after s print publicly voiced opposn to gay marriage.
The quick-service cha ultimately pledged to stop donatg to anti-gay gay marriage remas a hotly bated issue, many pani have begun to openly urt gay and lbian shoppers and their supporters. Penney this year hired lbian talk show host Ellen DeGener as s spokwoman, while Kraft Foods recently featured a Oreo okie wh a rabow-lored middle -- a nod to gay pri -- on s Facebook promis to stop givg money to anti-gay groupsL. Mayor on Chick-fil-A: ‘Love and liberty will always triumph’Teens prott Chick-fil-A gay marriage stance at new O.