Posted on 09/20/2005 9:34:23 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
WACO, Texas – Coffee cups with a gay author's quote about growing up homosexual have been pulled from Baylor University's Starbucks coffee shop.
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."
The quote from novelist Armistead Maupin reads:
"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."
Concerned Women for America, a national Christian women's organization, says Starbucks, which is based in Seattle, is promoting a homosexual agenda with the cup.
Cade Hammond, president of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Central Texas, said he sees pulling the cups as unnecessarily restrictive.
Well, he's got the 'damned' part correct anyway.
I still think Donkin Donuts coffee is better.
"I'm a gay man and a gay barista"
Does Starbucks have a cup with a quote about the Wages of Sin? No? Quel surprise.
"Life's too short". It's even shorter if your Gay.
Good for Baylor.
I am a pretty regular Starbucks customer...and I didnt even know these quotes were on the dumb cups. Who takes their sleaves off to read a quote?
Just don't ask for cream with that cup.
Baylor had better gear up their legal department because they're sure to hear from the ACLU.
I take it black...like my men
I take it black...like my men
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You go girl!!!!
Me either. I go to Starbucks every day, but I get iced coffee. They don't have anything written on the cups for cold drinks.
"Life's too short" and Hell is for eternity...
I tried the line "I like my women, like I like my peanut butter...Chunky."
Mrs. Exile didn't think it was funny, and she thought I was calling her fat. (I mean a few sit-ups wouldn't kill her, but geesh).
"Just don't ask for cream with that cup"
Good one!
What's the flavor of the week?
Chocked full of nuts?
The service guys must of got a real laugh when they initially dropped those mugs off.
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