Columbia Sportswear to endorse gay marriage


Columbia Sportswear and CEO Tim Boyle will support the proposed 2014 initiative to repeal the ban and legalize same sex marriage in Oregon.

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Columbia Sportswear and CEO Tim Boyle will support the proposed 2014 initiative to repeal the ban and legalize same sex marriage in Oregon.

Several privately-held companies have announced their support for the measure but Columbia, which posted $1.7 billion in revenues last year, is by far the biggest company to take a stand.

“It doesn’t make any sense to exclude people from the constitutional rights they should have,” Boyle says. “Frankly, this should have happened a long time ago.”

Read more at Willamette Week.


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