OK, tomorrow we must all go to Food Lion and buy Barilla pasta. Every single box they have in the store. http://t.co/9nDWzpJnGf
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 26, 2013
The New York Post, Bruce Golding reporting, tells us why we should [tip of the fedora to Donald Douglas]:
Anger is boiling over at the chairman of the Barilla pasta company after he vowed to only feature heterosexual couples in commercials — and added that anyone offended by his anti-gay stance could buy a different brand of noodles.
Guido Barilla told Italian radio on Wednesday that he would never use a gay family to promote the world’s leading brand of pasta, according to The Guardian.
“For us the concept of the sacred family remains one of the basic values of the company,” Barilla said. ”I would not do it but not out of a lack of respect for homosexuals who have the right to do what they want without bothering others…[but] I don’t see things like they do and I think the family that we speak to is a classic family.”
When asked if he was worried about a possible backlash from the gay community, he said: “Well, if they like our pasta and our message they will eat it; if they don’t like it and they don’t like what we say they will…eat another.”
Bravo, Mr. Barilla, and God bless you and your family.
Dammit, more businessmen should be taking stands like this.
You all have a moral obligation that goes along with your economic ones. It’s not something that any government should enforce — it should be something you impose on yourself for the sake of your own souls and if you want to truly, in an actually worthwhile way, give to your nation and Western Civilization.
Set an example, like Mr. Barilla.
The time has come for all good businessmen to fight for what is Right, for all that is Decent and True.
UPDATE at 1947…
-Stacy McCain informs us here that you can also buy Barilla Pasta on Amazon [and if you do it through his link, he gets a few shekels].
-Big thank you to Becca Lower for pointing out the now-fixed ‘you’/'your’ mistake.
