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  • Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups

    08/29/2005 4:30:31 PM PDT · by neverdem · 131 replies · 2,908+ views
    The Seattle Times ^ | August 29, 2005 | Lornet Turnbull
    Starbucks says it was hoping to inspire old-fashioned coffee-house conversations when it introduced a campaign this year featuring the words of notable Americans on its coffee cups. But at least a few of those words are sparking more discord than discussion. A national Christian women's organization is accusing the Seattle-based coffee maker of promoting a homosexual agenda because of a quote by author Armistead Maupin, whose "Tales of the City" chronicled San Francisco's homosexual community in the 1970s and 1980s. Maupin's quote — one of several dozen in "The Way I See It" promotion — says his only regret about...