News Mar 28, 2012 at 4:00 am

A Starbucks Boycott Backfires

How an Anti-Gay Group Made Coffee Lovers of Us All

Dominic Holden
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Wow. This is a piece of genuinely good news. No one gets hurt, reflects positively on our culture, big business does the right thing... I think this made my day
jnonymous on March 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM Report this
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Yay! NowCanICutBackOnTheCoffee?
fairly.unbalanced on March 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM Report this
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NOM:
Sit down, relax, have a cup of (SBUX)coffee. If you want to boycott something, make yourself useful and put some pressure on SBUX to start serving some edible pastry.
Mr. J on March 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM Report this
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OM NOM NOM.
Gerald Fnord on March 28, 2012 at 11:41 AM Report this
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Religious extremists are a small minority, and their days of bossing people around are over. I'm proud of Starbucks and I'm now on a mission to buy something from every Starbucks in the city.
very bad homo on March 28, 2012 at 11:44 AM Report this
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I can't believe that those dozen or so NOMmers couldn't make a dent in a ten billion dollar company.
Fnarf on March 28, 2012 at 11:45 AM Report this
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Fnarf, l love you.
freikja on March 28, 2012 at 11:54 AM Report this
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I can't believe people are stupid enough to keep drinking shitty coffee from a screw who dumped off a valuable and treasured civic resource to carpetbaggers from Oklahoma.

Nobody needs NOM to figure this one out.
Brrrrzap! on March 28, 2012 at 11:55 AM Report this
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@5 Yikes! Won't that cost about 17,000 dollars?
ScrawnyKayaker on March 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM Report this
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Were it not for "news" of the boycott, I probably wouldn't have known that Starbucks is relatively progressive on the issue of marriage equality. So, thank you, NOM. I still won't go out of my way for a cup of burnt coffee, but I'm probably a little less likely to avoid the place now.
Wonker on March 28, 2012 at 12:12 PM Report this
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@8 My mom hadn't stepped inside a Starbucks since we lost the Sonics. However, she's made three trips in the last two weeks, and posted twice on facebook. Proud of her.
Tracy on March 28, 2012 at 12:42 PM Report this
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I'm guessing that a large majority of Starbucks' patrons already support gay marriage, so I'm not sure it's sending a message to ALL Fortune 500 companies "that defending gay rights is safe political ground". I'd love to see Wal-Mart take the same position.
DOUG. on March 28, 2012 at 12:56 PM Report this
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NOM is both a hate group and a punchline, and laughed at is exactly what they deserve to get. Meantime, I still can't afford to get anything at Starbucks, although I now look at them fondly when my bus passes one.
balderdash on March 28, 2012 at 12:56 PM Report this
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Generally i avoid sbux. Been there twice in the last week. Nuf said.
Xtoph on March 28, 2012 at 1:15 PM Report this
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we called the company to tell them that we approved of Schultz's response so much we actually bought a share of sbux.
on March 28, 2012 at 1:29 PM Report this
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Love the quote from the CEO (and it gives my Americano Misto addiction an ethical backing)but mostly curious whether other people are getting Christian dating site ads with their good news...? Not sure they've accurately picked their ideal audience.
CatieCan on March 28, 2012 at 2:28 PM Report this
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@16

Ads are sometimes "chosen" by keywords on the page instead of a conscious decision to place them. I and lots of others get ads to donate to Ron Paul or to REPEAL OBAMACARE or whatever.
Zebes on March 28, 2012 at 3:14 PM Report this
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

OM NOM NOM NOM

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of worthless pig-fuckers.
rocketgeek on March 28, 2012 at 4:17 PM Report this
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Don't mess with Seattle! I'm proud of my city and proud of Starbucks for taking a stand. That is how change happens.
ExpatFriend on March 28, 2012 at 4:37 PM Report this
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Now we just need to figure out why the media portrays the NOM folks (along with a lot of other right-wing extremists) as being some kind of mainstream movement instead of the fringe minority that they really are.
highside on March 28, 2012 at 4:37 PM Report this
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I bought a bag of Starbucks whole bean coffee today because of NOM.
montex on March 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM Report this
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And SBUX stock hit an all-time high this week. Coincidence?
elaineinballard on March 28, 2012 at 10:17 PM Report this
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Best news all week for sure, hilarious that bigots first of all don't buy overpriced coffee from one of the most liberal cities in America and second that of the bigots who did shop at Starbucks few of them were willing to give up an addiction to caffeine in order to hate the gay. Oh the power of drugs.
watchout5 on March 28, 2012 at 10:43 PM Report this
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Gee, thanks, NOM! I'm going to hit my local Starbucks more often now!

NOM, NOM, NOM, NOM, NOM....I love their COO-KIES, too!
auntie grizelda on March 29, 2012 at 2:25 AM Report this
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I am so happy about this boycott -- if it ensures that my local Starbucks is free of hate-filled bigoted homophobes, how refreshing!

Now I am waiting for the pathetic hypocrites at NOM to boycott Microsoft, Apple and Google (all of whom strongly support marriage equality and equal rights) so that we will never have to hear from them on the Internet again.
Robroberts on March 29, 2012 at 7:11 AM Report this
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A good percentage of the names on NOM's petition aren't even genuine. Things like "Perverted Priest" and other obvious jokes are all over it. I know people who put them there. NOM doesn't care, it's just another IP address to "count." They're such ugly characters.
Dan Not Savage on March 29, 2012 at 8:31 AM Report this
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Do you remember how embarrassed some of these assholes were the day after the latest supposed Rapture when they were STILL HERE? Still Laughing my f*cking ass off, Har-de-Har, NOM-NOM, stick it in yer ear.
Goober on March 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM Report this
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Starbucks made the decision to back gay marriage because they view the issue through the "lens of humanity."

Here's hoping they expand that lens to include fair trade coffee buying practices - not the watered down version they currently get away with in the US (but curiously, not in the UK).
gaycoffee on March 29, 2012 at 11:26 AM Report this
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NOM YoYos, Rinky-Dink 'hos. :)

With apologies to the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhists.
on March 29, 2012 at 2:43 PM Report this
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Isn't NOM largely funded by the Mormons who claim they don't drink coffee anyhow? I mean it doesn't seem like they really thought out this whole boycott plan very well...

Then again, most of what they do doesn't seem very well thought out so I guess it's at least consistent.
on March 29, 2012 at 3:04 PM Report this
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Uh that yummy hobo coffee! ripping off a worn sock from your foot and wrapping a couple hand fulls McNulty's in it and tossing in into bon fire kettle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVGXcjM9S…
slade on March 29, 2012 at 3:53 PM Report this
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Calloo, Calllay! I moved what cash had accrued in one of my investment accounts based only on what Shultz said about "trying to be a company that embraces diversity", et al. Not a bad move. I'm expecting my recent blocks of the Macy's/HomeGoods pater company do as well. Thanks, NOM, for making an old, retired gay man some money.
midlifebear on March 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM Report this
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If anything Maggie Gallagher of NOM needs to increase her intake of Starbucks...after all, it's a natural diuretic...seen a pic of her lately? ew!
on March 30, 2012 at 1:30 PM Report this
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Using some general statistics, it might follow that Starbucks has 22,000 LGBTQLMNOP employees.
MoistSlacks on March 30, 2012 at 3:59 PM Report this
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Odd that shareholders at a shareholders meeting would seek to diminish the value of their shares by boycotting the company they have those shares in, and seeking to bring down said company.

Seems like self-defeating behaviour to me.
DerekWilliams on March 31, 2012 at 2:57 PM Report this
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If you want to boycott something that actually damages America, how about starting with Murdoch owned tabloid press and Fox News, and the illiterate reactionary lunatics on Clear Channel talk radio stations.
on March 31, 2012 at 8:28 PM Report this
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That's just it--they were hedging their bet. Either their hate-cott would win OR their shares would increase in value.

See how smart these assholes are?
on April 1, 2012 at 12:55 AM Report this
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That's just it--they were hedging their bet. Either their hate-cott would win OR their shares would increase in value.

See how smart these assholes are?
on April 1, 2012 at 12:57 AM Report this
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That's just it--they were hedging their bet. Either their hate-cott would win OR their shares would increase in value.

See how smart these assholes are?
on April 1, 2012 at 12:58 AM Report this
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I've rarely had something supportive to say about Starbucks. Until now. They're still not my first choice for coffee - but they're one of the first examples of positive corporate culture I'll point to.
MtnFreak on April 2, 2012 at 8:16 AM Report this
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pjckmen on April 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM Report this
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I dislike when my values are considered radical because of my Christian values, lets pretend for a moment that homosexuality is not a sin, and I will then once again water down my values so that you can feel good about your movement. I have a better Idea, I will honor each person as a child from God, and he whom is without sin can throw the first stone at starbucks! doesn't mean I will ever pretend to support starbucks, yet in the same breath I will not past judgement to those that do! JH, Ohio
findarainbow on April 3, 2012 at 7:06 AM Report this
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What 8 said. While it's great that Starbucks is agreeing not to break the law, it's not reason enough to consume their crap. Howard Schultz still hates Seattle, and doesn't deserve kudos.
wilbur@work on April 3, 2012 at 12:34 PM Report this
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There is not a single RATIONAL reason to not support LGBTQ people in their fight for Equal Rights and Marriage Equality. That being Gay {and acting upon it!} is a "Sin", comes from the very old {St.Augustine} Catholic idea of "Original Sin", that "Sin" being that Eve ate the Apple, somehow making all Sex a "Sin", to be "paid for" by Death and Eternal Hellfire afterwards. Since the only path to avoid "Hellfire for Eternity" was to join and obey the Church, this gave the Church ENORMOUS political power - as long as uneducated peasants believed crappola like that. {The Church Hierarchy, of course, only SAID they believed it -- laughing all the way to the Medieval Bank!}
Any arguments against complete Equality in every respect, are merely faith-based and cannot be legitimately imposed on the VAST MAJORITY who don't believe that superstitious "Original Sin" nonsense any more. {Or imposed on them even if they were a minority -- which they are not!}
Barbara Tee on April 6, 2012 at 11:43 AM Report this
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Pretty funny. As if Starbucks' CEO will announce at a press conference, "The Starbucks boycott is cutting into our business. IT is having a negative impact." Seriously, do you really think they would admit if there was an issue? OF course, you have to look where this article originated - from Gay ACTIVISTS who would not dare admit the truth about much of anything anyway. They will LIE and DECEIVE anyone just to get their way. They're nothing but a bunch of brats in a sandbox that can't get along so they resort to bullying.
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