Since the Starbucks at Baylor U. is pulling cups with 'gay' quotes ...

[kweerwolf]

... how about suggesting a few others they might use?

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job. For too long, our nation has tolerated the insidious form of discrimination against this group of Americans, who have worked as hard as any group, paid their taxes like everyone else, and yet have been denied equal protection under the law.
- Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
- Dorothy Parker, author and humorist

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and three hundred sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
- Lynne Lavner, comedian

You know ... whenever some yahoo talks at me about how he hates the fact that Gays took a Perfectly Good Word and ruined it, I reply that what I hate is the way some people took a Perfectly Good Word like 'Family' and turned it into a code word for intolerance."
- Bruce Garrett, artist and software engineer

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
- Barry Goldwater, conservative Senator and one-time presidential candidate

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
- Ernest Gaines, African-American author

You could move.
- Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?
- Elayne Boosler, comedian

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.
- Robin Tyler, first openly gay comic in the U.S.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein, playwright and actor

I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
- Harvey Milk, slain San Francisco City Supervisor at a 1978 Gay
Pride Rally

It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.
- Andre Gide, French novelist

The only unnatural sex act is one which you cannot perform.
- Dr. Alfred Kinsey, pioneering sex researcher

Americans have a very low tolerance for differentness, whether it’s racial, ethnic or sexual. Despite our rhetoric about individualism, we are a desperately conforming people.
- Martin Duberman, gay historian

I wish that homosexuals were born with a little horn in the middle of their forehead so we couldn’t hide so easily. At least if you can’t hide, you have to stand up and fight.
- Harvey Fierstein, playwright and actor

Are homosexuals social outcasts? My God! Christopher Isherwood, Howard Brown, Merle Miller, Sidney Abbott, John Maynard Keynes. Are
these people social outcasts? Some of the most moral men I know are homosexuals.
- Dr. Evelyn Hooker, psychologists and author of pioneering studies of homosexuality in the 1950s

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.
- Former Air Force sergeant Leonard Matlovich

I have never come across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity.
- Oscar Wilde, British playwright

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde, British playwright

I’ve never outraged Nature. I’ve always listened to her advice and followed it wherever it went.
- Joe Orton, British playwright

A right-wing gay man is like a vegetarian butcher.
- Singer Boy George

[CurtEastPoint]

1. They completely buckled under to the CWA.. NO MORE STARBUCKS

Freaking wimpy asses.

They are "sensitive" to the Baylor "culture" (Petri dish?)

Give me a freakin break.

Who's up for a Coke??

[mitchtv]

10. CWA? Communications Workers of America?

California women in agriculture? California waterfowl Assoc.? Sorry I can't figure it out

[RedXIII]

11. cwa

concerned wenches of america.

[mitchtv]

12. I feel so dumb!

I'm sure I knew that.

[wtmusic]

2. perfect

good work :thumbsup:

have a link to the Baylor story?

[kweerwolf]

3. Here's the link ...

http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2562

And if you're interested, here's a link to a poll in the Waco Tribune about the issue:

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/20/starbucks_poll.html

[wtmusic]

4. thanks nt

[DU9598]

5. Dear Abby

I love her quote. What a class act she was.

[pro_blue_guy]

7. "Dear Abby"

When I read that, I almost cried! You go girl! I'll be reading her column more often now.

[I Have A Dream]

6. Thanks for posting this. n/t

[Democrats_win]

8. We must fight for our rightful place in society and culture.

"Why should I allow myself to be kicked out?"
--Gregory Maguire from his short story "The Honorary Shepherds" which appears in the book, "Not the Only One." (He's the author of Wicked.)

"There's a place for us." (Same source as quoted from the song "Somewhere" from West Side Story.)

[RedXIII]

9. .....

Your silence will not protect you" - Audre Lorde