School Removes Cups
With Gay Author Quote
By AP from the
NYTimes on the Web, September 20, 2005
WACO, TX -- A dining
contractor has removed coffee cups with a gay author's quote from a Starbucks at
Baylor University, saying it was inappropriate for the Baptist school.
Aramark, which oversees the coffee outlet, pulled the cups earlier this month
from the campus store after consulting with Starbucks' district office and
Baylor's dining service, school officials said Monday.
''I think they were trying to be sensitive,'' Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley
said. ''Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and
Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the
denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle.''
The quote from novelist Armistead Maupin reads:
''My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. 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.''
Cade Hammond, president of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance of Central Texas, said he thinks the cups' removal as unnecessarily
restrictive.
(Emphasis Added.)
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