(Responding to Starbucks supporting same sex marriage)
This makes me want to cry. Too late. I am crying. I am so very disappointed. I actually love the products at Starbucks, - love the coffee, and have always enjoyed the comfortable environment and culture. Of course, my definition of diversity, is different personalities, hair color, etc. I didn't realize their culture included what this article is saying until now.
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Aww, does same sex marriage make poor widdle Praying cry?
Good! I enjoy your tears and hope you'll cry an ocean as equality spreads across the nation.
"I have to say good-bye to what has been a big part of my life for a very long time."
More companies will be taking on the support of same sex marriage until it becomes legal over the entire USA, so you'll need to get used to this!
I highly doubt that Starbuck's refusal to treat gays as subhumans affects the quality of their coffee. To stop doing something that you enjoy in order to avoid being exposed to people in the LGBT community is bigotry, plain and simple. Do you honestly think no gay people cross your path elsewhere during the course of your day? If you think your environment has been sterilized for you due to your beliefs, you live in a larger, more intense fantasy world than the one your 'bible' provides you.
But please, feel free to avoid Starbuck's if it pleases your sense of self-righteous indignation.
I actually prefer my Mocha Frappuccinos without a side order of bigot.
This is actually really sad, and so quintessentially fundamentalist; Something I enjoy disagrees with my religion, therefore I need to give it up no matter how miserable it makes me, because any suffering I endure to get to heaven is worth it. Oh, and I need to act happy about it, too.
On the one hand, my sympathy is certainly blunted by the fact that she's upset by people embracing equality; on the other hand, some days I think that being a fundamentalist is its own punishment.
If you're going to boycott Starbucks for supporting same sex marriage, then you had better boycott just about every other major corporation and business, too. That is, all of them except Chik-Fil-A.
And your definition of diversity is extremely limited. I'm guessing you think you're a tolerant person because you like everyone at your church.
"Weren't these people the same assholes that called for free speech when liberals started boycoting Chick-fill-a?"
Yes, most likely.
Because according to them, this is how it goes:
"FREE SPEECH: WE get to say anything we want! THEY don't get to do anything other than agree with us or STFU!!"
Maybe, just perhaps, and I'm just blueskying things here. If Starbucks means enough to you that the thought of losing it over something so petty as this drives you to tears, then your stance on same-sex marriage is what needs to change?
Ooooh I'm so sad for you, you selfish, self-centered piece of human garbage. I wish my only care in the world was not being able to go to Starbucks anymore.
Hair-color equals diversity? Really? REALLY?
Diversity is different personalities and hair color? Praying has little knowledge or experience of the world and now s/he is beginning to discover that the world isn't like what s/he imagines her/his small town/suburb to be. And it's not going to get any easier unless Praying starts to take the world on its own terms a bit more.
That said, you lose nothing by not going to Starbucks except the weight you gained by drinking mocha lattes every day for years.
Holy shit what?? "different personalities, hair color"?
Is this person seriously saying they think diversity is fine so long as it's lily-white heterosexual people?
Someone needs a dictionary so they can look up the word "diversity"...
I'm sure Starbucks board of directors and all their share holders will immediately call a meeting, where there will be much anxious hand-wringing about the lost revenue from those mocha lattes.
This is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
This is such a wonderful fit of Christian Persecution idiocy. Look what the fight for equal treatment of GLBT people has wrought? This poor, poor fundamentalist feels they can no longer visit a coffee franchise. There is *no way* they can possibly go there to experience the diversity of hair color because of the gay agenda. How can we even begin to understand this person's pain? Feel sorry for them. And Jesus wept...
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"I didn't realize their culture included what this article is saying until now.
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I guess we'll hear no more of your bitching about people boycotting Chick(tract)-FAIL-A, eh, right-wing fundies? Now you know how it fucking feels, you inferior subhuman hypocrites.
The only one stopping you continuing to go to Starbucks - is you . Specifically the bullshit propaganda you've been indoctrinated with via Faux News/Rush Limburger/your pastor/the circlejerk at Ruptured Retards.
Start thinking for yourself . It won't kill you. Only your unjustifiable right-wing fundie mindset & so-called 'beliefs'.
Point out to me in the Bible where Jesus specifically condemns homosexuality - or even same-sex marriage? If you can't, there's the start of your breaking the indoctrination by your fundie brainwashing. Baby steps, and all that jazz.
also I am sad for me
Well, I'm not. Here in the real world, we have real problems to deal with--poverty, violence, civil rights, the environment, etc. Sacrificing mocha lattes on the altar of your own bigotry IS YOUR OWN FUCKING CHOICE, so go huddle in a corner and sob for your lost humanity.
Of course, my definition of diversity, is different personalities,
And, of course, my definition of proper punctuation is not to separate the subject and the verb of a clause with a comma.
Btw, are you aware that "Starbucks" is named after the first mate on Captain Ahab's ship Pequod , from Melville's novel Moby-Dick ?
I bet if you knew that, your head would explode due to an overload of gigantic Moby-Dick phallic symbolism fantasies, especially in combination with gay marriage.
If you ever do read Moby-Dick , which I doubt you ever will, I hope you get sick every time you read the name Starbuck. He's in the whole book.
News of the white whale?
And after all the time you have been wallowing in the gay masses at Starbucks, you should take a bleach bath to make sure all that gayness have not rubbed off on you, better drink some too to get rid of the gayness from their gay coffee!
That's your choice and nobody, least of all Starbucks, could care less.
I would strongly advise you not to visit Europe because you will soon starve to death, given that equality is not only accepted, but enshrined in law and bigots-only businesses are very thin on the ground.
"Of course, my definition of diversity, is different personalities, hair color, etc. I didn't realize their culture included what this article is saying until now."
Oh no, it might mean different skin colour, and different (gasp) religions, and (even bigger gasp) different sexual orientations!
Are you really telling me you didn't know the meaning of "diversity"?
Well, good luck finding another coffee shop that doesn't embrace diversity! Does Chick-fil-A do coffee?
I have an idea. Drink your coffee and stop complaining. Heck, I may not agree with Chick-Fil-A's opinion of gay marriage, but I can acknowledge that they make some damn good chicken. Surely you can get over your own bigotry and accept that while you don't agree with Starbucks on their opinion of gay marriage, you can still enjoy their coffee.
Wow.. that post is really American. Almost incomprehensible to me:
1. does anyone believe corporate entities have opinions?
This is more a brand loyalty issue than a religious issue. There are way too much coffee place brands in the world. Even McDonald's sells coffee.
Yes, it is hard to leave a brand behind when you start disagreeing with the company's direction - One word: Consumer choice. Coffee ! = Starbucks as Hamburgers ! = McDonalds.
"Of course, my definition of diversity, is different personalities, hair color, etc. I didn't realize their culture included what this article is saying until now."
Of course your definition of diversity is to have as little of it as possible.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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