Monday, August 29, 2005

Act Up and smell the coffee

"Concerned Women for America" (a conservative, "faith-based" group) has found something to object to in the coffee cups at Starbucks. Or rather, on the coffee cups at Starbucks. It seems that the company is running a promotion whereby they include quotations from quotable noteables on the backs of cups.

And one, from Armistead Maupin (author of the well-known Tales of the City series), has aroused their ire. They feel there's something offensive to their people in his proclaimation that he doesn't regret being gay--rather the opposite.

And you know what--they're probably right. There is something offensive to them about that. Good thing, too. The things we choose to care about...

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