Chairman of Barilla pasta: ‘Gays can go eat another brand’
Chairman of Barilla pasta: ‘Gays can go eat another brand’
Gay rights advocates are calling for a boycott of Barilla, the world’s leading pasta maker, after it’s chairman said he would never feature a gay couple in his advertisements.
Guido Barilla, whose company has almost half the Italian pasta market and a quarter of that in the U.S. said on an Italian radio broadcast Wednesday: “I would never do an advert with a homosexual family…if the gays don’t like it they can go an eat another brand.”
“For us the concept of the sacred family remains one of the fundamental values of the company,” he said, according to a report in The Independent.
Barilla went further, attacking gay parents and adoption.
“I have no respect for adoption by gay families because this concerns a person who is not able to choose,” he said.
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