Jeebus! Stay Home And Drink Folgers

Since I usually get iced tea or double espresso over ice at Starbucks, I haven't had a hot cup to read and notice the quotes. Heck, I'd never even looked at the picture of the lady on the logo before someone had something to say about that a few years ago. Now folks are complaining about the quotes on the cups ... saying they are too liberal! What the heck does that mean? Starbucks is not a religious institution. Can people get lives?

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 being gay is that he 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, which promotes itself as the antithesis of the National Organization for Women and boasts 8,700 supporters in Washington, says most of those quoted on the coffee cups are liberal.

Why are these good, Christian women doing in Starbucks anyway? Shouldn't they be at home, watching a passel of babies making coffee in a percolator?

Update: If they really need to see bible quotes on cups and wrappers, they need to go clog their arteries at In and Out Burger (Again, I'm not that observant and never noticed the scripture references on the bottom of the cups or on the wrappers).

Powered by ScribeFire.