tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14215370.post112723294501969471..comments2023-10-31T07:29:17.510-07:00Comments on = LNews =: University Bans Paper Cup With Queer-Positive QuoteLNewsEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516265929045096334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14215370.post-1127312506379902152005-09-21T07:21:00.000-07:002005-09-21T07:21:00.000-07:00By sheer coincidence, I got this very cup (Quote #...By sheer coincidence, I got this very cup (Quote #43) yesterday, courtesy of a morning coffee run -- stuck on the outside of the cup that actually held my java. Of course I'm keeping it on my desk as a souvenir. "Ooh, banned at Baylor... It's a beautiful thing!"LNewsEditorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15516265929045096334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14215370.post-1127233015554458012005-09-20T09:16:00.000-07:002005-09-20T09:16:00.000-07:00JIC Post:The Associated PressWACO, Texas – Coffee ...JIC Post:<BR/>The Associated Press<BR/><BR/>WACO, Texas – Coffee cups with a gay author's quote about growing up homosexual have been pulled from Baylor University's Starbucks coffee shop.<BR/><BR/>Dining contractor Aramark pulled the cups earlier this month from the campus store following an e-mail sent to Baylor's dining service, saying the quote was inappropriate at a Baptist University.<BR/><BR/>Aramark, which oversees the coffee outlet, consulted with Starbucks' district office and removed the cups to avoid offending others, Baylor officials said Monday.<BR/><BR/>"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 said. "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."<BR/><BR/>The quote from novelist Armistead Maupin reads:<BR/><BR/>"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."<BR/><BR/>Concerned Women for America, a national Christian women's organization, says Starbucks, which is based in Seattle, is promoting a homosexual agenda with the cup.<BR/><BR/>Cade Hammond, president of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Central Texas, said he sees pulling the cups as unnecessarily restrictive.LNewsEditorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15516265929045096334noreply@blogger.com