NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher in National Review's The Corner blog:
I was at the annual board meeting of the Church of Starbucks in Seattle on Wednesday.
Honestly that’s what it felt like. It opened with a self-congratulatory pitch by Howard Schultz on how terrible life in America is, and how much he is helping, then it melded smoothly into a “our values are the barrier to entry for other coffeecompanies” bottom line.
I was there with the National Organization for Marriage, to ask Howard Schultz if it’s really true that gay marriage is “core” to Starbucks’s brand and its values.
He said yes.
NOM launched a DumpStarbucks.com campaign.
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I'm sure Starbucks is shaking in its boots at the thought of a NOM-lead boycott. What a joke NOM is!
Starbucks treats all people equally, which is the right thing to do. They have thousands of gay employees and customers, why would a company want to publicly disrespect them? Treating ALL people well is simply the right thing to do. Isn't that what Jesus would do?
In America, a church need not perform any religious ritual marriages that it opposes.
However, civil marrages are a matter of civil equality.
Civil rights will always trump religious rights, in the USA, and that's precisely why this country was founded.
America will not tolerate a supposedly-Christian organization attempting to force its misguided and bigoted values on all citizens.
Please keep your personal and most disrespectful religious bias to yourselves, and do not attempt to dictate to those Americans who do not share your bigotry and intolerance.
To obsess over a coffee chain is simply grabbing at straws for publicity. This is silly.
AD: What would Jesus do?
Why, what He did the last time He was confronted by a bunch of pharisaical word-twisters on the question of marriage. He would tell them the Truth, of course:
"But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
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"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine
Nice Thomas.
So what if Starbucks is all inclusive . What do you want gay people not to have jobs> Leave these people alone NOM your bigotry and hatred has gone to far even your own followers are starting to jump ship.
We're better off as a society if we treat all citizens equally, rather than giving special rights or privileges to some, but not others.
I am fascinated with the use of the words Church of Starbucks. I presume this was used to add weight & negativity to the idea that here is an organization that is trying to apply a belief system to a group of people...which is essentially what churches are. Does anyone see the irony in this because I'm sure this campaign has been highly influenced by churches & religion. I have no problem with churches being against gay marriage & influencing their congregations to live accordingly. It only becomes a problem for me when the church expects those outside it's congregation to live in the same way. I am very pleased that Starbucks is one of many corporations that stand for equality & fairness.
All I can say is WOW! these NOM folks need to pay attention to what is going on in their own yard first, and quit worrying about what the neighbor has planted in his own garden. if it is not in your yard it is not your business! if they are going to try to outlaw gay marriage, then they should also outlaw divorce. and while they are at it they may as well burn the bill of rights, and reinstate slavery, as well as promote segregation. which is exactly what they are doing. Freedom if they ALLOW us to have it!
William Doyle - Well stated.
How very un-Christian of NOM to spend MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS on this vendetta instead of healing the sick, feeding the hungry and housing the poor.
I really hate Christians, and wish the Romans had completed their pogram.