Rotten Tomatoes: Barilla CEO's Anti-Gay Remarks

By Chris Hoenig


Can pasta go bad For many Americans, it just did.

Guido Barilla, CEO of the pasta business that bears his family’s name, has created a firestorm after telling an Italian radio station that he will not include LGBT families in his company’s advertising. “For us, the concept of the sacred family remains one of the basic values of the company,” he said Wednesday evening. “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.”

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