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August 31, 2005

Gimme a triple-venti-extra-gay-no-whip-mocha

I'm a regular Starbucks customer. I think their coffee is generally excellent: perfect temperature, great variety and very good customer service. The outlet I usually patronize has a superb manager and what seems to be a staff dedicated to doing a good job.

I've been aware of Starbucks' The Way I See It campaign, having purchased what is likely gallons of their regular caffeinated beverage. Little did I know that it was pissing off the fundies:

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.

The pissed off fundies are from Concerned Women for America. It seems the gals at CWFA don't like the "gay agenda" of Starbucks. They've apparently missed the "right wing whacko agenda" of the coffee merchant as well..given that other cup quotations stem from such brightly lit conservoluminaries as Jonah Goldberg and Michael Medved.

Darryl at Hominid Views is concerned about the Starbucks gay agenda as well. He's provided a stirring list of solid, Christian conservative quotations to aid the good ladies of CWFA as they work to clean the nation's coffee houses of the gay scourge.

While I salute Darryl's efforts, I've decided that a few extra trips to Starbucks each week are now in order. If it's pissing off the fundies...it's worth it to me to pony up the extra scratch to support a good cause.

(Hat tip to Bryan Harding at Gay Rights Watch)

Posted by Carla at August 31, 2005 08:41 AM