Offending Starbucks cups yanked at Baylor

Waco Tribune-Herald ^ | 09/20/2005 | Mike Anderson and Cindy V. Culp

[doghead1]

Baylor should not only throw out the cup but also throw out Starbucks if it is operating on campus. Then, start their own coffee place. It's just coffee.

[Sender]

Wonder how many are from conservative thinkers or express conservative ideas?

I think you know the answer to that one. Seattle coffee cups are for progressive, forward-thinking ideas, not for dinosaurs.

[peacebaby]

You can call me John, or you can call me Jim, but don't you dare call me a dinosaur! :~)

[ValerieUSA]

I wonder what is printed on the beer cans at Baylor.

[tumblindice]

I guess Starbucks figures if you'll pay $2.00 for a cup of coffee, you'll swallow anything.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I'm sure you're right. We're more likely to find the sayings of Mao than of Ronald Reagan.

[kcvl]

Armistead Maupin (born May 13, 1944 in Washington D.C.) is an American novelist whose most noted work to date is his six-book series collectively titled Tales of the City, the first portions of which were initially published as a newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle, and later converted into a series of books. The first three books in the series have also been converted into three television miniseries, the first airing on the American teleivision network PBS and the latter two on the American premium cable television channel Showtime.

Later works by Maupin, unrelated to the Tales series, include The Night Listener and Maybe The Moon.

Biography

Maupin grew up in North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina. He is a veteran of the US Navy, and once worked for the conservative television personality and subsequent US Senator Jesse Helms.

[Chode]

if i ever went to $tarbuck$, and they gave me a cup like that... i'd tell them put it in another cup or i wasn't paying for it.

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

There was an article on WND a few weeks ago regarding Starbucks sponsorship of a gay event in CA... a little fuzzy on details now, but they, as a corporation had something to do with an area to entertain small children at a gay pride event.

[kcvl]

Lincoff said the company does not characterize the personalities quoted on its coffee cups as liberal or conservative, but rather as a diverse group of artists, musicians, educators, activists and athletes.

Among them: music producer Quincy Jones, New Age author and alternative-medicine doctor Deepak Chopra, radio host and film critic Michael Medved, rap artist Chuck D and Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan.

The coffee company won't be pulling the Maupin quote — or any other — from the campaign, but in fact will expand it to feature quotes from regular customers.

"Embracing diversity and treating people with dignity is one of the guiding principles of our corporation," Lincoff said.


Starbucks spokeswoman Lara Wyss said decisions about sponsoring gay-pride events and other causes are made at the store or regional level, not the corporate level. And while Starbucks matches employee contributions to charities such as Planned Parenthood, Wyss said, it doesn't make outright corporate contributions to such groups.

Other corporations have also drawn controversy over sensitive topics.

Last spring, Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, threatened to boycott Microsoft if it didn't back off its support of anti-discrimination legislation for gays here in Washington.

Microsoft withdrew, but said it had decided before Hutcherson issued his threat.

In Oregon last month, Nike withstood opposition and an e-mail campaign organized by a Christian organization over Nike's support of legislation that would have allowed civil unions and banned discrimination against gays.

Both measures passed the Senate but did not make it to the House for a vote.


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John Hoover, a national business consultant and author who has advised such companies as IBM, Delta Air Lines and Boeing on the art of confrontation, said, "It's not incumbent on corporations to operate with balance" as Richardson suggests.

"But when they stand by their conscience, they must be willing to accept the consequences."

[Rutles4Ever]

Starbucks is a big-time champion of the gay agenda.

My wife and I were rabid Starbucks addicts. When we found out about their very public sponsorship of the Seattle Gay Pride parade, we stopped cold turkey. They're not getting another dime from us.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Lets go find all the banned cups and sell them on online auction services. This would be most profitable. (and I still want to know how they managed to fit all those words on there)

[ConservativeWarrior]

“Whatever you feel, whatever you think about something, discussion is the number one thing to do to educate yourself on an issue.”

In other words, anyone anti-homo is just ignorant, and hasn't been given enough facts.

Right. We've all seen more than we care to see about sexual deviants, thanks. Get back in the friggin' closet.

[DBrow]

The bill of rights does not include the right to never be offended.

[kcvl]

Two men and a poodle
By ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

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[Jessarah]

"I'd like to see the response if Scripture verses were put on the cups and sent to UCLA, for example. Like John 14:6."

You took the words right out of my mouth! It would be great if there were a Christian organization out there who sold drinks and could put Bible verses on their cups.

[Flightdeck]

I thought only whiny liberals got offended.

[Petronski]

Me too. And I'd tell them why.

And I'd not be surprised when they gawked and whispered at the "wierdo right winger" after I'd left the counter the second time.