Todd Starnes: Christians Shouldn’t Tell People How To Run Their Business (Except When We Do)

“It’s not the Holy Grail, folks. It’s a cranberry-colored, environmentally-friendly coffee cup. I stopped drinking Starbucks coffee years ago – back when their chief executive officer said he did not want to do business with people like me – a gun-toting, Bible-believing offspring of white privilege. So I figured – why spend my hard-earned money on a company that actively opposes my values? I’ll probably be fielding some angry emails about my take on the Starbucks controversy — but should we really expect a secular company to embrace Christianity?

“It wasn’t too long ago that many of the same folks complaining about Starbucks were defending Christian-owned bakeries and flower shops. The way I see it, we ought not to be telling bakeries and florists how to run their business and we ought not to be telling Starbucks how to run theirs.” – Todd Starnes, likely referring to this invented quote falsely attributed to the CEO of Starbucks. Bonus points to all of you who find examples of Todd Starnes telling CEOs how to run their companies. Here’s one from two months ago.