Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Like the coffee, she's pretty bitter.

     UPDATE: You think Gallagher was expecting the answer she got today? Her National Organization for Marriage has launched a Starbucks boycott site in no small part because they think people in other nations will be offended by the company's support for marriage equality in Washington.

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Maggie Gallagher is an angry woman who feels the only way America can undo the hurt she feels over getting pregnant, and dumped, by her boyfriend at Yale decades ago is to prevent same-sex couples from marrying.
     In her spare time, she takes camera photos of her hand:

My last cup of #starbucks? It was free... on Twitpic

     "My last cup of #starbucks? It was free..." she Twittered.
     What's the occasion? Gallagher's off to Seattle to try and blackmail Starbucks over its support of marriage equality in the State of Washington.
     Gallagher's waddling in where another right-wing culture war sumo, Rev. Ken Hutcherson, trod a few years ago. He announced he would bring Microsoft to its knees for the same sort of apostasy. He even launched a plan to get people to buy three shares of Microsoft stock and give one to him his AGN Financial Network. If enough saps supporters threw away spent enough money, he'd be able to force the company to do his will, he said:

Microsoft don’t scare me. I got God with me. I told them that you need to work with me or we will put a firestorm on you like you have never seen in you life because I am your worst nightmare. I am a black man with a righteous cause with a whole host of powerful white people behind me.

     Hutcherson has never revealed who the powerful white people are. You can't find the AGN Financial Network website any more, either. But among its advisers and directors were Richard Land, from the Southern Baptist Convention; Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association; Herbert Lusk, of Greater Exodus Baptist Church; Tom Strobhar, of Citizens Action Now; Rabbi Daniel Lapin, radio host Michael Medved's sidekick; Nixon administration felon-turned-right-wing-scold Charles Colson (what does same-sex marriage have to do with a prison ministry, anyway?); Stu Webber, of Good Shepherd Community Church; Gary Bauer; Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr; Paul Weyrich, and the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins.
     Of those, Wildmon, Colson, Bauer, Jackson and Perkins are newly minted members of the GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project.
     Want to look in? Here's a link to Starbucks live stream of the event.


    

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