Aug 19 2011
Starbucks, Willow Creek split over gay issue [Excerpts]
Shortly before he was scheduled to address thousands at the annual Willow Creek Leadership Summit, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz withdrew, prompted by a petition signed by only 700 people on the liberal website Change.org that said Willow Creek Community Church has a "long anti-gay history."
The petition objects not to the purpose or content of the annual leadership summit, but to former associations of the host. Willow Creek Community Church once had a relationship with Exodus International, the nation's largest Christian organization dedicated to reaching out to homosexuals. The church's break with Exodus drew criticism from some conservative Christians.
The Change.org petition called for a Starbucks boycott, saying that by not denouncing conversion therapy, Starbucks was giving "tacit approval."
Gay activists have targeted a growing number of corporations working with churches and ministries on various projects. The activists often call conservative Christian organizations "hate groups" and the label seems to be sticking.
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[TBC: The tolerance demanded by the Left is something that seems to be never practiced by the same. We also know from 1 Corinthians:10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. that all temptations (including homosexuality) can be forsaken and that God has provided a way of escape. Paul had already noted this in 1 Corinthians 6. He spoke of members of the church who formerly had been fornicators, adulterers, idolaters, homosexuals, thieves or drunkards (verses 9-10). Verse 11 contains the wonderful news that “such were some of you: but you are washed, you are sanctified; you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”]
