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Starbucks, the world’s most famous coffee shop chain, has begun a program called “The Way I See It,” which is a collection of thoughts, opinions and expressions provided by notable figures that now appear on Starbucks coffee cups. Quote #43 blatantly pushes the homosexual agenda. It’s by Armistead Maupin, who wrote “Tales of the City,” a bestseller-turned-PBS drama advocating the homosexual lifestyle. It has come to light that Starbucks is a regular sponsor of Planned Parenthood and also a sponsor at a recent CA gay festival where two known pedophiles were working as volunteers. At “gay pride” events in Seattle, Wash., in July, about 75 Starbucks employees wearing promotional T-shirts participated in a parade and passed out samples accompanied by a van with the company logo. “There are active homosexual groups in most major corporations now and they do a shake down, where they say, ‘If you don’t promote our events, you’re exhibiting bigotry and hatred, and we’re going to let everybody know that and you’ll feel bad about yourself and maybe it will hurt your sales.’ I don’t think it has ever hurt a company’s sales. I think they just cave in all too easily. But Starbucks was promoting homosexuality about 10 years ago ... and a lot of conservative groups got together and said, ‘Why are you doing this?’ and I remember getting a letter back from them about 10 years ago saying, ‘Well, you know, we were doing it, but it was an oversight and we’re not doing it anymore.’ And I noticed that over the years Starbucks was not among the corporate logos at the bottom of these ads sponsoring gay pride events -- until recently. They’ve started to creep back in.” - Bob Knight, Dirctor of Culture & Family Institute, Concerned Women for America