Coffee, a dangerous stimulant
Baylor University, a large baptist school in Waco, Tex., got the campus Starbucks to remove from its inventory paper coffee cups with a quote from gay author Armistead Maupin. The cups were part of a series, "The Way I See It," which the Starbucks website says is "a collection of thoughts, opinions and expressions provided by notable figures ... People who brought both diversity and life experiences to the mix. Those who accepted, offered pearls of their life experiences to entertain, engage and hopefully get us all thinking."
That explains it. Baylor doesn't want its students to think too much.
The campaign against the Maupin quotation was started by Phyllis Schlafly's Concerned Women for America, one of the more powerful religious right-wing groups. Schlafly's son, John, is homosexual -- as are the daughter of former Presidential candidate Alan Keyes and the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Maupin quote, by the way, is:
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.
Pretty dangerous.
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