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NOM Launches Campaign Against Starbucks |
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Written by Instinct Staff |
Monday, 30 January 2012
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| Tags: dbags, national organization for marriage, nom, brian brown, starbucks, marriage equality, same sex, gay, threats, boycott, el pollo loco, hypocrisy, homophobia |
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In its latest display of mind-numbing hypocrisy, the National Organization for Marriage is asking homophobes to complain to Starbucks HQ about the coffeemaker's support of marriage equality both in Washington state and at the federal level. Details follow.
NOM's head bigot Brian Brown prodded the tens of sheeple who follow his every word to ask Starbucks to stop supporting civil rights in a blog posted to the hate group's website on Monday.
"Americans should be able to drink a peaceful cup of coffee without worrying that a portion of the company's profits is going to be used to push gay marriage without a vote from the people," Brown said. "This is a gratuitous leap into a hot button culture war issue; respect for diversity touted by Starbucks ought to include respecting the diverse views of all its customers and employees."
"Diversity and tolerance are a two-way street. Having waded into a social issue where Starbucks has no special competence, the company has an obligation to reassure its customers, vendors and employees that it will respect the most important diversity—diversity of opinion," added Jonathan Baker, head of NOM's Corporate Fairness Project.
Speaking of fairness, let's not forget that NOM praised El Pollo Loco for donating to Prop 8 efforts in California, showing that the anti-gay group actually respects a company for "having waded into a social issue" ... as long as said company sides with NOM, that is. If the company puts forth an opinion contrasting with NOM's, then it has overstepped its responsibility to diversity of opinion. Or something.
This will forever be known as el pollo loco logic.
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