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The Opera House in Seattle was the setting for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and the annual board meeting of his church of Starbucks.

Jonathan Baker, head of the National Organization for Marriage's Corporate Fairness Project was there to ask if the board really approved the statement that gay marriage is "core to the Starbucks brand."

Yes, Schultz said. Most of the room there applauded, but what happens in Seattle doesn't stay in Seattle.

Millions of good, honorable, decent and loving people believe that marriage is the union of husband and wife for a reason -- these unions make new life and connect children to a mom and a dad.

Of all the sustainable ecosystems Starbucks might want to support, surely this one is worthy of a company that bills itself as a company with a conscience?

I wanted to tell Schultz personally that we at the National Organization for Marriage were going to ask all his customers, employees and vendors who do not support gay marriage to make their presence known.

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Something around perhaps 96% of Starbucks' coffee is purchased from poor coffee farmers in the third world who sell at prices that give them pitiful wages that they can barely support themselves on. They can earn as little as 4 cents for every pound of coffee that they pick by hand, and many don't have enough money to give their children education or healthcare.
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Something around perhaps 96% of Starbucks' coffee is purchased from poor coffee farmers in the third world who sell at prices that give them pitiful wages that they can barely support themselves on. They can earn as little as 4 cents for every pound of coffee that they pick by hand, and many don't have enough money to give their children education or healthcare.

If Starbucks wanted to engage in something to stand up for human rights and the dignity of people, wouldn't this have been a more logical starting point? Isn't the needs for a family to raise children and support itself with daily food, clean water, basic healthcare and education more important than the state recognizing the marriage of two people, even if it really were morally acceptable for them to marry?

I suppose it's possible the basic needs of all those peasants in Brazil or Viet Nam (the world's two top coffee producing countries) don't factor into the corporate conscience equation as much as the political views of Starbucks' customers in western countries.

Matthew 23:27-28 Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
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It's strange how businesses and corporations are now promoting ideologies. Why's that?! Are any businesses supporting traditional marriages and Catholicism?! Maybe it's time they were ☕
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I guess in America if you want special treatment you got to raise a lot of cane. Is it any wonder why our children are bringing guns to school (we train them to complain and raise cane)? We seem to REWARD those that cause the biggest fuss and PUNISH those that are the most religious (turn the other cheek). I have NO DOUBT that America is on the road to becoming a 3rd world country. It's happened to …More
I guess in America if you want special treatment you got to raise a lot of cane. Is it any wonder why our children are bringing guns to school (we train them to complain and raise cane)? We seem to REWARD those that cause the biggest fuss and PUNISH those that are the most religious (turn the other cheek). I have NO DOUBT that America is on the road to becoming a 3rd world country. It's happened to every empire in world history (Egyptians, Romans, Turks, ...) and usually after they decide their leaders are god and/or there is no god. Need I say more.
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GloriaTV....thanks for posting this and bringing it to attention.
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Humm.... thinking on the topic of good coffee: The best coffee trees are in the Caribbean and South America (Western Hemisphere); italy accross unto the North of Anatolia (Eastern Hemisphere).
When coffee is carefully roasted and served up as a personal gesture of affection and friendship (as it is in the Latin and Eastern Societies), straight from the Coffee House (rather than shipped, flown in,…More
Humm.... thinking on the topic of good coffee: The best coffee trees are in the Caribbean and South America (Western Hemisphere); italy accross unto the North of Anatolia (Eastern Hemisphere).

When coffee is carefully roasted and served up as a personal gesture of affection and friendship (as it is in the Latin and Eastern Societies), straight from the Coffee House (rather than shipped, flown in, or the like), tis a most delicious drink indeed!

Starbucks seems to do quite the contrary to the aforementioned in attempting to fool intelligent people into thinking that they serve WELL cultivated coffee, far less GOOD coffee. One would therefore do well to adhere to 'Neros' (if in the UK), 'The Dark Horse' if in Toronto, Canada, or anyhwere in the USA where coffee beans are treated correctly!
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Anyone paying $5 for a cuppa leftwing coffee deserves it.
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Just built a Starbucks near me.
Already have a Dunkin Donut near.
I wouldn’t use Starbucks even if the DD closed down. I would brew my own...
Any business that ties its name to perverts does not get my business
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Anyone paying $5 for a cuppa leftwing coffee deserves it.
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Just built a Starbucks near me.
Already have a Dunkin Donut near.
I wouldn’t use Starbucks even if the DD closed down. I would brew my own...
Any business that ties its name to perverts does not get my business
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Starbucks coffee is the worst commercially available swill I have ever tasted. What they do is over-roast the low quality beans they buy to increase the bitterness so that it tastes strong even though they cut back on the quantity the use with each brew. You pay $5-$6 per cup for weak, bitter swill.
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I haven't darkened the doorway or drive-thru window of a Starbucks for years. We've been aware of their left-wing lunatic worldview for quite a while now.
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“Any business that ties its name to perverts does not get my business”
Amen, FRiend. I refuse to quaff that burnt, overated swill sh!t.
Spanish coffee and Jacobs here in Germany are far, far better!
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Make your expresso at home, 👌 use a medium roast blend like Seattle Mountain Blend. Toss the very first second of the pull and you will have a coffee that puts starbucks to shame. The sour flavors are all in the first black second of the pull. The bitters are on the last part. So short pull your coffee and you will not believe how good it can be.

Never again will I buy starbucks, first because they use their profits to destroy my country, secondly because there coffee is bitter and awful.
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