Post subject: Starbucks promoting the gay lifestyle!
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:26 pm
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Starbucks cups with gay author's quote pulled from Baylor
The Associated Press
WACO, Texas – Coffee cups with a gay author's quote about growing up homosexual have been pulled from Baylor University's Starbucks coffee shop.
Dining contractor Aramark pulled the cups earlier this month from the campus store following an e-mail sent to Baylor's dining service, saying the quote was inappropriate at a Baptist University.
Aramark, which oversees the coffee outlet, consulted with Starbucks' district office and removed the cups to avoid offending others, Baylor officials said Monday.
"My understanding is it was a decision made by Baylor dining services staff, and I've not yet been able to trace it back to any Baylor administrators telling them point-blank to pull the cup," Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley said. "I think they were trying to be sensitive. Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle."
The quote from novelist Armistead Maupin reads:
"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short." Concerned Women for America, a national Christian women's organization, says Starbucks, which is based in Seattle, is promoting a homosexual agenda with the cup.
Cade Hammond, president of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Central Texas, said he sees pulling the cups as unnecessarily restrictive.
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That's a very cool quote.
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That's a very cool quote.
I first read that in L.A. in Aug. I think it is a great quote.
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punkdavid wrote:
There's only one way to stop homophobia.
Butt sex. Lots and lots of public, forcible butt sex.
I'm reminded of the South Park episode:
"Alright, we're going to the center of town and getting in a big pile and getting gay with each other!"
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Wanna see people really freak out?
Put a bible verse on the side of a Starbucks cup.
As long as Starbucks isn't a government agency ...
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I don't think they're really "promoting" a gay lifestyle. They're not saying "Everyone should be gay. It's much better than being straight" I think "supporting" would be a better word
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#43 is gay
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bgarvey44 wrote:
#43 is gay
Starbucks is gay.
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JimNasium wrote:
I don't think they're really "promoting" a gay lifestyle. They're not saying "Everyone should be gay. It's much better than being straight" I think "supporting" would be a better word
Homophobes consider "supporting" gay people to be "promoting a gay lifestyle".
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punkdavid wrote:
JimNasium wrote:
I don't think they're really "promoting" a gay lifestyle. They're not saying "Everyone should be gay. It's much better than being straight" I think "supporting" would be a better word
Homophobes consider "supporting" gay people to be "promoting a gay lifestyle".
Yeah, kinda like some people think that having the Ten Commandments on a parcel of Gov't land is "promoting Christianity".
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