Boycott Starbucks???

My family just sent me a Starbucks Gift Certificate in the mail. Before I could use it I hear Christian groups are trying to boycott that store because in a recent meeting the Starbuck staff said that the

" Seattle-based coffee company mentioned support for same-sex marriage as a core value of the company. "

As far as that goes Starbucks is not alone other name brands are promoting that standard. I am definitely not too happy to hear this, but I am not overly surprised.

Anti-God Messages on Cups?

Also there has been quite a debate over their Anti-God messages on some of their cups. Incidentally they claim that they also have pro God statements on other cups. They are part of  program of quotes on their cups called, "As I see it". 

see this link for the details on this: http://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41531/

As far as Boycotting.......... read this from Moore: 

Some Christians are wondering whether we ought to join in the boycott.

 I say no.

It’s not that I’m saying a boycott in and of itself is always evil or wrong. It’s just that, in this case (and in many like it) a boycott exposes us to all of our worst tendencies. Christians are tempted, again and again, to fight like the devil to please the Lord.

A boycott is a display of power, particularly of economic power. The boycott shows a corporation (or government or service provider) that the aggrieved party can hurt the company, by depriving it of revenue. The boycott, if it’s successful, eventually causes the powers-that-be to yield, conceding that they need the money of the boycott participants more than they need whatever cause they were supporting. It is a contest of who has more buying power, and thus is of more value to the company.

We lose that argument. 

(I liked this article from the perspective of nonresistance.) I scanned over it and liked it at face value.  See the rest on http://www.russellmoore.com/2012/03/25/should-christians-boycott-starbucks/

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO MY SIMPLE CUP OF JOE--THAT TASTED NOT SO POLITICAL?


In regards to the drink itself  1 Cor: 10:25-26

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

Romans 14:14

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.