TOMS’ CEO Gave Interview to Gay-Hating Focus on the Family; Apologizes
To say he didn’t know anything about FotF’s beliefs shows that he is either lying, or has very ignorant people on his advisory board.
Blake Mycoskie, 34, an evangelical Christian, founded TOMS in 2006, promising every pair would be made with fair labor and would provide a second pair for a needy child.
The for-profit California-based company, which has given away more than a million pairs of shoes, is popular on the West Coast, particularly with young adults attracted to no-frills fashions and social justice activities.
After gay-rights and feminist groups criticized Mycoskie and his customers threatened a boycott, the CEO apologized.“Had I known the full extent of Focus on the Family’s beliefs, I would not have accepted the invitation to speak at their event,” he wrote on his Start Something That Matters blog.
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