Cups with gay author's quote pulled from Baylor Starbucks

[kweerwolf]

Coffee cups with a gay author's quote about growing up gay have been pulled from Baylor University's Starbucks.

Dining contractor Aramark pulled the cups earlier this month from the campus store following an e-mail sent to Baylor's dining service, saying the quote was inappropriate at a Baptist University.

Aramark, which oversees the coffee outlet, consulted with Starbucks' district office and removed the cups to avoid offending others, Baylor officials said Monday.

"My understanding is it was a decision made by Baylor dining services staff, and I've not yet been able to trace it back to any Baylor administrators telling them point-blank to pull the cup," Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley said. "I think they were trying to be sensitive. Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle."

http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2562

FYI - here's the quote that has their knickers in a twist:

"My only regret about being gay is that I 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." ... Armistead Maupin

(On edit ... here's a link to a poll in the Waco Tribune about this issue. Right now 59 percent of the respondents say they are not offended by the cup.)

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/20/starbucks_poll.html

[sui generis]

1. tell the babtists it's not a fucking LIFESTYLE!!!! It's a life.

I have a problem with babtists. They shouldn't be allowed to marry.

[Bob3]

2. there was a newspaper editor in Texas who once said

"the only thing wrong with Baptists is that they don't hold them down long enough"

I love that quote.

[benburch]

3. Only ONE problem with Baptists.

They don't stay under the water long enough.

[goclark]

4. What a shame!

That makes me so angry.

So no quotes from Malcolm X of course and MLK was too liberal,right!

The next time I am in Costtomuch Starbucks I will give them a piece of my mind.

Thanks for letting me know.
I think that is a wonderful quote by the way. You can take out the word gay and insert (ugly, short,shy etc) and you will have learned an important life lesson.

[Democrats_win]

5. Amazing quote: it expresses the experiences of many people.

[BlueJazz]

6. You posters have overlooked ONE important thing. >>>>

Don't we have to think of the Children?

(By "Children"...I mean the dumb-ass Repugs) :)