Starbucks promotes homosexual agenda with coffee cup

Baptist Press ^ | 08/12/2005 | By Erin Curry

[Melas]

I don't do Starbucks because I don't drink coffee or tea. I've gone with my wife and friends a couple of times, but it hurts my feelings to buy one of those bottles of Jones soda for close $3.

As for the politics, I seperate politics and product. If your product is good I'll buy it even if I find your politics disagreeable. By the same token, if your product sucks, sharing my politics isn't going to help you with the sale.

[Clemenza]

However I do have a coffee cup with a somewhat feminine Garfield on it.

I always suspected that Garfield "played for the home team."

[cyborg]

LOL!!

[cyborg]

Yup. You're right.

[Lancey Howard]

No, I certainly never fell for the marketing ploy either.
"Hey! Let me spend more for a cup of coffee that I can make a pot of at home," just never sounded like a high IQ idea to me.

Give me Maxwell House Slow Roast any day.

[Clemenza]

Black and Latino = Blatino. Commonly used in NYC, particularly in the gay community, to distinguish between the Nuyorican/Dominicanyork/Afro-American Gays and their white counterparts. It also signifies the fact that most NY Latinos (particularly those of Puerto Rican and Dominican ancestry) have black ancestry.

[cripplecreek]

Garfield never did have much interest in that sweet young... Ahem...kitten.

[SamAdams76]

The Way I See It

"When I want to go get a cup of coffee, I just want a cup of coffee. Medium. Black. I do not want to stand in line behind a half-dozen customers of questionable gender as they agonize over such things as whether they want skim milk or soy in their $7 double-chocolate latte. I do not want some over-enthusiastic employee with jewelry sprouting out of every body orifce trying to get me to give them my first name so they can write it on the darn cup. I just want a damn cup of coffee and I want it fast. Thank you and good day."

[Caipirabob]

Someone please tell me. I roast my own coffee, it's that important to me, and I still have to ask; "Whom, other than a homosexual, would drink something called 'frappuccino' anyways?"

This all comes as no surprise.

[Modernman]

It seems like, the ability to get offended by everything and anything seems to have infected conservatives. It used to be that only liberals would freak out over petty crap like this while conservatives had more important things to worry about than catching gay from a homosexual coffee cup.

I guess we've solved all of society's problems and can now focus on ridding the world of the evils of Starbucks coffee cups with the "wrong" message.

[Clemenza]

Garfield always struck me as more of the leather and "shower" type (see Cruising or, better yet, don't) rather than the Pottery Barn type.

[trubluolyguy]

Stopped going to Starbucks when I found out about the lefty issues they support. Do I miss my Triple Venti Toffee Nut Latte? Yeah, but I've lost 10 lbs in the 2 months I stopped going there.

[birbear]

Geez... another place I'm supposed to boycott?

Ya know... if I gave a rat's butt about the politics of most corporations, I probably wouldn't own a damn thing. I sure as hell couldn't work at any of 'em.

Fortunately I know when to pick my battles. 1 type of coffee cup at Starbucks has something minorly pro-gay on it? [I mean, for cryin out loud, it doesn't sound like the writer is pushing pro-gayness on anybody... he's just saying, if you are gay, acknowledge it and don't be afraid of it. Which I think is something similar to what Shaekspear once wrote: "To thine ownself be true.] Not a big deal in my world view.


Pretty much, my litmus test for a company --> if I own it's stock will I make money via it's corporate policies. I owned SBUX at one time, and I made money.

[Fred Hayek]

And Caribou is owned by a Muslim fundamentalist group.

[battlegearboat]

"That's a pretty rude and intrusive question."

HouTom is the first self described homo I've seen here at Free Republic. I just wanted to know if there are more queer homo conservatives out there than I realized.

You don't ask questions, you won't get answers.

[ScreamingFist]

I guess I am pretty insecure, I got rid of all the gay cups in my house a while ago. I have a gay crock pot I can't seem to part with, though.

LOL! I remember when gay meant happy, I had to give up singing the "I feel happy" song years ago when I started getting questionable looks, sigh.....

[Responsibility1st]

What happens if you request a different cup?

Yeah, (snicker)what happens if you asked them for a 'support the troops' cup?

Or (ha, ha) maybe a 'pro-life' cup?

LOL

[trubluolyguy]

Starbucks is from Seattle. Anyone who knows anything about Seattle politics...well, 'nuff said.

[houeto]

HouTom is the first self described homo I've seen here at Free Republic. I just wanted to know if there are more queer homo conservatives out there than I realized.

Just because he's here doesn't make him conservative.

[netmilsmom]

>>When they give me the "venti" speech I start screaming at them in italian.<<

You are amazing! Makes me want to learn Italian and just once, go to a Starbucks.