Good Bye, Starbucks...

I have officially joined the nationwide boycott of Starbucks.   To be completely honest, I wasn't aware that such a boycott existed until 12 hours ago.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is on the record that his company firmly backs the "right" of gay "couples" to marry and enjoy all of the benefits accorded to heterosexual couples.

As a Born Again, fundamentalist Christian, I stand firmly behind the Biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman until parted by death (yes, I oppose adultery and remarriage after divorce on Biblical grounds as well, but those are discussions for another time).  The Bible clearly teaches this precept:

But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.  So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.  And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
    because she was taken out of Man.”

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  Genesis 2:19 - 24, ESV 

This precept was confirmed by the teachings of both Jesus and Paul in the New Testament:

 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,  and said,‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:4-6, ESV

"But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”  Mark 10:6-9, ESV

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”  Ephesians 5:31, ESV

 Schultz, however, has taken a political position on this issue that stands in opposition to this Biblical precept.  When a stockholder observed during a recent stockholders' meeting that their returns had diminished 10% in the wake of a nationwide boycott of Starbucks relating to their support for gay marriage, the CEO told him, 

"...it is not an economic decision to me. The lens in which we are making that decision is through the lens of our people. We employ over 200,000 people in this company, and we want to embrace diversity. Of all kinds... You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.” howard schultz to pro-Biblical marriage starbucks shareholder

Schultz's declaration was applauded by the other stockholders.

Until such time as Schultz repents of his blatantly unBiblical position, I have officially joined the ranks of those will no longer do business with Starbucks.