Starbucks promotes Homo agenda in Waco

[cosmik debris]

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/20/20050920wacstarbuckscups.html

It is funny to me, but it is not a joke in Waco.

"Coffee cups featuring a quote by a gay author about growing up homosexual have been pulled from Baylor University's on-campus Starbucks.

Aramark, which as the contractor for Baylor dining services oversees the coffee outlet, pulled cups from the campus store earlier this month after a university staff member sent out an e-mail complaining about the appropriateness of the quote at a Baptist university, Baylor officials said."

The quote on the cup 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.”

And here is a poll you can DU if you want to:

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

[SaveElmer]

1. Babies...

have to have their precious eyes and ears protected from all the "badness"

[katinmn]

2. voted, 55% No, not offended. geeze, Why is this an issue anywhere?

[genieroze]

3. voted

[cry baby]

4. voted

[theHandpuppet]

5. The "HOMO" agenda?

Do you always refer to gay folks as homos?

[cosmik debris]

6. I apologize to any who may have been offended

I was expressing my take that this is humorous. Perhaps I was not sufficiently sensitive. What wording would you suggest?

Edit: it was my intent to mock those who believe that there is a "Homo agenda" separate from the Human Rights agenda. I did not mean to give offense.

[theHandpuppet]

7. First off, I don't find anything funny about it

But as a gay person I find the term "homo" to be a slur. Either spell it out as homosexual or use the word gay. I don't even mind the word queer, although there are some who take offense to that. But calling people "homos" brings up a lot of bad memories for an old lesbian like me. 'Kay? Thanks for asking.

[cosmik debris]

9. Betty Bowers thinks it is funny

http://www.cafepress.com/bettybowers/658751

[derby378]

11. I got the same reading off of that, myself

Sometimes it's not meant as an insult (as in "homo vs. hetero" re: Matt Groenig), but I can see where it's perceived as such.

[MalibuChloe]

16. i'm gay and i use that word all the time

I love it. But like the N word, it's really only appropriate for us homos to call eachother. No outsiders can use it. :-)

[northzax]

17. ah, so it's like a secret handshake?

acceptable for self deprecation but not for others to use? please if the person starting this thread was gay the language would be acceptable?

[MalibuChloe]

18. it's a little different on a message board...

people take things differently...but in person, yes. my friends and i use that word all the time with eachother. we've taken the word back, if you will.

[sam sarrha]

8. maybe the Gay Agenda left a bad taste in their mouth

:wow: :puke: :rofl:

[Rob H.]

10. 'Cause, yeah, no gay people would ever go to a religious university

:sarcasm:

A friend of mine knows a man who went to a religious university's (can't remember which one) overnight early registration/orientation and very nearly had sex with his male roommate. The only reason he didn't is because at the time his religion made him feel guilty and ashamed for being gay and he hadn't yet acted on his homosexuality. (And for the record, his roommate propositioned him, not the other way around.) I think he only lasted a single semester at that university--he's since come out and is much happier now.

[teenagebambam]

12. A friend of mine...

...never had more gay sex than when he spent a year at Oral Roberts University. The amount and variety is topped only by my partner's stint in the armed services.

[cosmik debris]

13. When I attended Baylor

It was known as the only University in Texas with landing lights on the dormitories for the fairies. (Yes I know that that is an offensive stereotype. But my statement is historically accurate. If you are offended, blame history, not me.)

[I Have A Dream]

14. DUed poll. Results below.

Are you offended by the Starbucks cup that has a quote about growing up as a homosexual?

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Yes. All I want is a cup of coffee, not this stuff. 40.65% 87
No. I just drink the coffee. It doesn't bother me. 59.35% 127

[Iris]

15. Hee!hee! Don't they know that's what happens when you 'outsource'?

Conservatives think outsourcing is so great, the private sector can do things so much better, blah blah blah

nice to see it come back and bite them in the ass once in a while!