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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–A controversial Starbucks cup that promotes the homosexual agenda has been pulled from a Baylor University coffee shop after someone commented that such a cup is inappropriate for a Baptist-affiliated university.
The Associated Press reported Sept. 20 that Aramark, the dining contractor at Baylor in charge of the Starbucks coffee shop, removed the cups to avoid offending others.
“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 told AP. “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 cup is part of a Starbucks program called “The Way I See It,” a collection of thoughts, opinions and expressions provided by notable figures that appear on the chain’s coffee cups.
But cup #43 blatantly pushes the homosexual agenda. It’s by Armistead Maupin, who wrote “Tales of the City,” a bestseller-turned-PBS drama advocating the homosexual lifestyle. It 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 [expletive] short.”
Concerned Women for America, one of the nation’s leading conservative public policy organizations, first sounded the alarm about the cups in August after one of its employees received one when she purchased coffee from one of the stores.