No More Starbucks

As much as I have enjoyed the fancy coffees at Starbucks and even the home like atmosphere where one could sit and visit with a friend or use their ipads while having a nice warm cup of coffee on a winter day, those days have to come to an end for me.

Every time I would enter one of those shops, I would be reminded of their foolish and blatant, in your face, promotion of homosexuality. I was willing to ignore their first statement that "if you are against gay rights, we don't want your business", because I thought that the employees and underlings who worked there might not necessarily agree with the CEO of that company.


I had also reasoned that this was a passing comment and would die away, every company now supports evil in one way or another, just look at the fashions in Walmart, JC Penney and other anchor stores at the mall.

HOWEVER, when I am informed that the commercials that Starbucks are producing and promoting openly homosexuality with cross dressing actors and strange make up and hair, I decided they had crossed the line.

For me it isn't about harming their business, even if all believers stopped going to their shops, they will not be hurt by it. For me it is about my own conscience. I must preserve the one thing no one can take from me and that is my conscience.

God speaks of not worrying about eating meat offered to idols, go ahead and do it when it is sold in the stores. God is not angry with this. If the merchants were bragging that their meat was offered to idols and endorsed and encouraged everyone else should worship those idols, then that crosses the line from using their product into endorsing their religion.

I only went to their shops rarely, for two reasons, the coffee was too strong while the price was too steep.

I would rather have coffee at an obscure shop run by decent people, in quaint parts of town, even if the coffee were not as fancy, than to encourage in any way the proliferation of evil.

I am at the point in my life that affords me the luxury of avoiding all the evil I can in the world. If the Lord told me to go to a shop to witness that would be another matter entirely, until He does that, I will avoid Starbucks.