Baylor University, affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, has charged Starbucks with “promoting homosexuality” through a paper coffee cup. Baptist Press reports:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--After nearly a decade of lying low, Starbucks has reentered the homosexual rights movement in a few ways that have put at least one conservative watchdog group on alert.

The world’s most famous coffee shop chain has begun a program called “The Way I See It,” which is a collection of thoughts, opinions and expressions provided by notable figures that now appear on Starbucks coffee cups, according to the chain’s website.

But one particular quote -- #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, and 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, is sounding the alarm about the cups after one of its employees received one when she purchased coffee from one of the stores.

Agape Press has the story about Baylor's response.

For the record: my wife and I drink Starbucks every morning and do not find their marketing to be a threat to our traditional marriage (or a threat to our children, for that matter). We buy fair trade (which Starbucks carries) and encourage others to do the same.

Hate sure manifests in weird ways. When will we ever surrender to God’s extravagant welcome?

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