Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups

[kweerwolf]

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.''

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-biz-starbucks090105,0,5131408.story?coll=orl-business-headlines

[davidinalameda]

1. finally read the article

these people are pathetic

they need to get lives