Posted on 08/04/2012 12:58:58 PM PDT by scottjewell
"Our original goal was to support Starbucks for being so supportive of our community and our rights.
"We specifically chose a brick-and-mortar chain to have visible support around the country on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in direct response to Mike Huckabee’s Chick-fil-A Day."
In an effort to heighten awareness for all companies and nonprofits contributing to the fight for marriage equality, we’ve decided to rename August 7 as National Marriage Equality Day...
This expansion of focus is the result of the direct encouragement of Starbucks Corporate Headquarters who wanted other equality-minded companies and organizations to share in the appreciation.
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National nonprofit organizations fighting for LGBT equality...:
Courage Campaign Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Freedom to Marry Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Lambda Legal Marriage Equality USA National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (The Task Force) National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) NOH8 Campaign Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) White Knot
A partial list of national and international brands that support LGBT rights (feel free to add more in the comments):
Abercrombie & Fitch Absolut Vodka Amazon.com Delta Disney Ford General Mills Google J.C. Penney JP Morgan Kenneth Cole Kimberly-Clark (maker of Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex, Scott, Depends, Wypall) Kimpton Hotels Levi-Strauss Macy’s Marshalls Microsoft Nike Sears Southwest Airlines Starbucks Target Tiffany & Co. T.J. Maxx"
The LGBTs have no intention of forgetting it on their side.
They are holding this day as a rebuttal to last Wed. and calling on national support to do so.
I thought they already had their day. Oh. Right, It failed. So now its a back door do-over.
Might I suggest to those whose “panties are up in a wad” (poor choice of words with this crowd I suppose) over CFA, turn this into something, like, positive, man. Why not start your OWN chain of LGBT-freindly fast food joints and compete? But then again the responsibilities that go with properly running a business are a million times greater than “community activism”.
The cultural radicals and their "moderate" useful fools just got their collective asses handed to them by the bitter clingers. The State Run Media will now want to stop covering the story.
the homo agenda has been intolerant and deployed NAZI tactics for years and still yes STILL WE HAVE DOPES ON OUR SIDE EVEN ON HERE WHO SAY THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THEM.
The homostapo have been intimidating businesses for years, they have sued Catholic adoption charities, they have gone after florists, ice cream stores, photographers, wedding cake makers, newspapers and frigging dopes on here wil still shop at Target, starbucks, homo depot etc and all because some are too selfish to give up a coffee, some furniture, some cheap shoddy looking clothes at Target.
Their kiss butt fest failed, they looked stupid so yet again they throw yet again another baby tantrum and now do this crap.
The homostapo just doesn’t get it because they’re so full of atred and bigotry, they don’t understand we don’t want to know their sex life or how they have their sex.
They don’t understand because they go ont their websites and tell each other how persecuted they are and how they should get intot he faces of people.
AND WE STILL HAVE SOME ON OUR SIDE who are COWARDLY, Hannity, some on talk radio , Romney, Noonan, Hume, Drudge who back these queers because either
1. they’re homosexuals
2. cowards.
3.they know a couple of homosexuals and they’re nice{hate that stupid pathetic ignorant comment}
4.they don’t want to upset their elitist pals up in NY City, and other big northern cities.
5 they only care about their own pocket
Hmmm, you may have a point there, and I guess we shall soon see!
There is nothing ‘courageous’ about mocking God and the universal truths the underpin our constitution. There is nothing ‘courageous’ about bullying people and businesses to adopt an agenda that is against their heart felt religious beliefs. These people are tyrants.
They can have Startbucks, and we’ll keep patronizing Chick-Fil-A.
yeah, looks like...
The Tower of Babel fell apart because it was made of brick and mortar.
Starbucks is going to be a little pissed because they had a 2% day on Tuesday. Time for Dunkin Donuts to have a banner day if they play their cards right.
Yes, it infuriates me, too - that is why I’ve become obsessed with the whole gay agenda’s future fate and keep posting on it. It is the one issue which is repeatedly dismissed by so many who profess to conservatism.
And the gays count on those who say “they have no problem with them”—they laugh behind their backs at them for granting them impunity, and see them as dupes. I do know this for a fact.
Jim How about a list permanently on here of companies which give a lot of money tot he left and the homostapo and surely ALL of US on here can get the word out to friends, family, neighbors, work associates etc and not spend out money on their companies/
Yes, there was indeed that feeling. So of course the moderates, centrists, or libertarians or whomever begin immediately to say it should be forgotten and that it does not really matter. Grrrr. infuriating.
Marriage Equality Day on August 7?
At long last, Billy Bob can get married to his pet sheep.
I’ll admit I tried Starbucks once in a great while. Their regular iced coffee, not the overpriced fancy stuff, is good. It kinda tastes like an iced Cuban cappucino I had at one the bodegas in Ybor City. Otherrwise I’ll stick with Dunkin Donuts’, that stuff hits the spot on a day like today ;)
You know there is a sense too that Starbucks didn’t really want the attention of itself. As in:
“This expansion of focus is the result of the direct encouragement of Starbucks Corporate Headquarters who wanted other equality-minded companies and organizations to share in the appreciation.”
To me, it sounds like Starbuck’s was saying, “hey, don’t put the spotlight on us, make it general”.
Same as me, years ago I never cared about them but after the way they have gone into a NAZI machine and intimidating folks, etc then I took more notice and the more I find out the more I am determined now to never give in to them, hell I’d go to prison before I ever conform to their mental sickness.
What gets me is supposed conservatives even a couple on here who stae they have no problem with them, after all the issues and lawsuits and changes in laws the homstapo have gone .
There are still folks which ignore this, still say no problem with their agenda.
I can’t stand cowardly people, we all need to speak up and not whisper our views or keep them to ourselves.
Why the likes of Hannity , some on talk radio etc stay silent pises me off to no end.
They’re cowardly silence has helped the homosexuals and they will advance their agenda until people get a clue and speak out.
There are so many companies on the list, I don’t think they will be able to make a visible, dramatic show of support on August 7.
That there are so many companies on the list demonstrates the headway the LBGTs have in the culture war. It will be a disadvantage to them in this specific instance only, as their supporters will be spread thin among many different companies, it will be difficult to make a visible, dramatic show of support.
I noticed that as well.
Sometimes I wonder if this companies just got railroaded and harassed into signing on, and resent being listed and “outed” like this.
No doubt on Aug 1 some of them suddenly “saw the light” and wished they were on the other side.
most of those companies never get my money anyway but I am telling others about starbucks, Apple, Google, Target especially as its back to school soon and many parents now have said they will not get their shoddy all the same clothing from there .
They called a mulligan?
Who said they could have a day for unnatural sodomite pseudo-marriage??? ...and calling it a “national day” to boot! What arrogance! I acknowledge no such thing!
The backlash is in full swing now. JC Penney just fired their CEO who thought the gay marriage stance was a good marketing idea. We all know how well that one is working out for their bottom line.
Since these companies are now listed by this group, I would say that the CFA appreciation day scared the crap out of them and I would expect all sorts of under the radar statements are in the works.
This whole thing was such a huge backfire that I would assume any company getting under the rainbow banner is either woefully stupid or engages in self masochism. Either way, their days in business are numbered.
most of those companies never get my money anyway but I am telling others about starbucks, Apple, Google, Target especially as its back to school soon and many parents now have said they will not get their shoddy all the same clothing from there .
A partial list of national and international brands that support LGBT rights (feel free to add more in the comments): Abercrombie & Fitch Absolut Vodka Amazon.com Delta Disney Ford General Mills Google J.C. Penney JP Morgan Kenneth Cole Kimberly-Clark (maker of Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex, Scott, Depends, Wypall) Kimpton Hotels Levi-Strauss Macy’s Marshalls Microsoft Nike Sears Southwest Airlines Starbucks Target Tiffany & Co. T.J. Maxx"Hey, guys, thanks for the list.
Having that list directly from you makes it easier to figure out what companies to avoid. This saved me a lot of time rather than looking them up on my own.
“Sometimes I wonder if this companies just got railroaded and harassed into signing on, and resent being listed and “outed” like this.”
The same way Jesse Jackson would shake down companies.
What ***hole declared the 7th “National” Homosexual “Marriage” Equality Day? Did the Kenyan do this as another “In Your Face” to decent Americans?
Home depot is a msive company who gives their money tot he homostapo and actually has job fairs for them.
Home depot is a massive company who gives their money tot he homostapo and actually has job fairs for them.
The rise and fall of the gay reich.
I don’t see Apple on that list.
I do, however, see Microsoft.
Maybe starting a list of verified supporters of these Gestapo
tactics should be a permanent sidebar item?
Starbutts?
D!c&-Fil-A?
No, wait. I have it.
Long John's Quiver... Two Guys or Two Girls...
The Donut Hole... Big Weiners... Pizza Butt...
Something tells me the idea will fail.
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agreed, there are many on here and elsewhere which have no clue that their money helps the lefts destruction and the Christian bigotry.
As if the LGBT-LMNOPs goons weren’t already overly-emotional drama hogs.
Load them up with coffee and watch them become even more obnoxious.
Ford?!?! Dang it, I had decided my next vehicle purchase would be Ford because Chevy took the buyout. Now I don’t know what to do...
Very true. I don’t want the reversal that occurred on Aug 1 to lose its power, so I hope they keep on with their obnoxiousness. I would not feel mean-spirited toward them at all nor harbor any animosity had this all not been such a long, long time in coming.
Drama hogs is right. Yes, all they need is Starbucks and a spotlight and they’ll being flying high.
I think Starbucks wanted the spot light not to be on them only, but with all the other companies as well. And that’s very telling.
Yes, same as when Glenn Beck said same sex marriage was OK, not to make a big deal of it. Just pandering to the lobbby and the monied sponosors. I am all for speaking out and taking a stand, as you note its going to get worse if we remain silent.
“This expansion of focus is the result of the direct encouragement of Starbucks Corporate Headquarters who wanted other equality-minded companies and organizations to share in the appreciation.”
How kind of Starbucks.
This is hilarious. All they’ll do is distribute the already-small population that would bother with this amongst (too many) businesses. It will look like any other day. No impact. Nothing different (except I’m sure they’ll wear signs and so on).
Compared to people standing in lines *outside* 1 kind of business all over the country!
Somebody did. Not sure where exactly its coming from as there are so many Rainbow lobbies I can’t keep track of them.
that’s the good ting about this site.
We know we are not alone,we know what is happening around thisn country and how the radical left are trying to destroy the country, the traditions and the foundations.
One thing I will never shut up about is this now, I’m more determined than I was last week.
I really believe Starbucks was kind of saying, “Thanks, but no thanks - after Aug 1 you ain’t gonna stick us in your spotlight.” They don’t want any part of it, IMO. ;-)
Failure again.
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