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Dear Friend,


Starbucks stuck its neck out to publicly support the right of all people to marry, regardless of the gender of their partner.


Now it is under attack by the ironically named, ultra-conservative "National Organization for Marriage."1 Already more than 20,000 NOM members have pledged to boycott Starbucks, and NOM is even threatening to run ads against Starbucks in 55 countries.


Let's blow the right wing out of the water by getting more than ten times as many consumers to thank Starbucks for standing up for gay marriage.


Join us in showing our support for Starbucks by signing our giant Thank You card. If 200,000 of us sign it, we'll deliver it to Starbucks executives to give them moral support to keep standing up for equality.


NOM is targeting Starbucks because the company recently stood up publicly to support gay marriage legislation in their home state of Washington.2 When it passed, the bill's lead sponsor said that support from business convinced moderate legislators to vote for it. Without support from companies like Starbucks, the gay marriage law might have failed.3


Now, if Starbucks backtracks because of opposition, then it will set the gay rights struggle back to a time when big corporations couldn't come out and support gay people for fear of public backlash. Even worse, it will embolden anti-gay activists to target other companies that support gay rights, and serve as a lesson to other companies to stay out of the fight for equal rights entirely.


Starbucks isn't perfect—and in the future we'll probably be asking them to improve their policies on other issues. But it's a big deal when a giant multinational corporation with no particular connection to the gay community realizes that there are real business benefits—from better employees to happier customers—to standing up for progressive ideals. And we can't just criticize corporations when they do bad. We also want to encourage them when they do good.


Let's show that supporting equal rights is good business. Click here to add your message to our Thank You card:

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Thanks for everything you do!


–Claiborne, Kaytee, and the rest of us


P.S. Breaking News: NOM had a strategic memo released against their will this week, where they plainly state their goal of driving a "wedge between gays and blacks."4 They even wanted to delay Latino "assimilation" so they could make "support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity—a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation."5 Driving wedges between people and groups is NOM's stock in trade. That's why this isn't just about Starbucks, it's about standing up against these divisive tactics. Click here to thank Starbucks.


Sources:


1. "Anti-gay marriage group wants Starbucks boycott," The Seattle Times, March 21, 2012
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We've reached 293% of our goal

Fortunately the far right wing has a never ending supply of prescription stimulants to make up for the dearth of coffee.

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Fortunately the far right wing has a never ending supply of prescription stimulants to make up for the dearth of coffee.

Oh, really? news to me.

OK, maybe painkillers then.

So the place to go to avoid the haters is Starbucks?

Good to know.

Grace--- generally any hip place will do. Of course you will get badly snubbed if you hog a table all day and don't pay the rent ( a few complex coffees in a couple of hours will do). Not to mention hogging the only outlet.

hmmmm. may be just a coincidence but business at my store has been unusually slow for the last few days. we've been speculating how odd it is given that economic news has been stable. this is the first i've heard of this boycott. i'll ask the manager tomorrow if she's gotten any calls.

the south side of Atlanta is not a hotbed of liberalism though you wouldn't know it from the staff at my store. i seriously doubt Starbucks would recant. the ethos is too strongly ingrained in the culture.

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"Success isn't about how much money you make. It is about the difference you make in people's lives."--Michelle Obama

gray... this posting is the first I've heard of a "Starbucks Boycott". Such things often have a short lifespan if you ignore them. if you run around saying "ooh, the sky is falling" that's a sign of weakness and the sharks begin to circle. Best choice ? Vote to ignore.

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gray... this posting is the first I've heard of a "Starbucks Boycott". Such things often have a short lifespan if you ignore them. if you run around saying "ooh, the sky is falling" that's a sign of weakness and the sharks begin to circle. Best choice ? Vote to ignore.

i'm just curious. i don't think the sky is falling. i'm just wondering if the christian right's underwear is showing.

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"Success isn't about how much money you make. It is about the difference you make in people's lives."--Michelle Obama

Thanks for the post. Think I will stop at Starbucks tomorrow for a coffee.

OM NOM NOM NOM

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This is a tough one. The closest Bucks to my work is across the street from an independent coffee shop. OTOH, Starbucks is a notoriously good company to work for (part timers get benefits, etc). Usually I go indie, but in this case I will take turns.

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"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

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cbelt3
gray... this posting is the first I've heard of a "Starbucks Boycott". Such things often have a short lifespan if you ignore them. if you run around saying "ooh, the sky is falling" that's a sign of weakness and the sharks begin to circle. Best choice ? Vote to ignore.

Waiting for the day rustbelt will get off his "pox on both" affliction.

RgrF... sorry to disappoint. I'm not willing to turn into an ideologically locked zombie. We can always unban certain folks if you need entertainment that badly ?

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