” The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessnessand wickedness of menwho supress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the Immortal God for images made to look like mortal manand birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” Romans 1:18-27

And what BJ is doing with Starbucks is not a double standard. They are not out to close or protest every business that has anything to do with a gay lifestyle, but they don’t want to promote it on campus.

God does love you for who you are — Romans 5:8 says, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” He loves all of us even when we were in sin, loved us so much to give His Son to save us from that sin. He doesn’t make mistakes, but mankind has chosen to go its own way (which is the essence of sin) rather than obey Him. Yet He still reaches out to us in love. It is actually the loving thing to do to let people know that the Bible calls homosexuality a sin so that they can turn to God for forgiveness and deliverance from it.

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

In other words, all that verse is saying is that you will be held to the same standard that you hold others to. The verse is not a blanket condemnation on all judgment of other human beings. In fact, I Corinthians 6:2 says “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?”

Point Two: James 1:13-14 says “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

In other words, if you are committing the sin of homosexuality, you don’t get to blame God for “making a mistake.” You are the one who is allowing yourself to be drawn away of your own lusts and enticed. Not God.

Everyone has their own sins that they are naturally inclined to chase after. Some people are strongly tempted by theft, others by greed, others by adultery, and still others by homosexuality.

Point Three: I think the reason that they stopped buying the Starbucks coffee and not the Jack in the Box restaurants is that while Jack in the Box is accomodating homosexuality, Starbucks seems to be actively promoting it. There’s a difference between saying “You can do that” and “You should do that.”

There are people who may not be interested enough to carefully read the entry, but will scan the titles and form an extremist image of evangelical Christianity that is unflattering. I’ve give some of my thoughts on boycotts on Mounty’s blog that might clarify why I believe BJ could consistently oppose Starbucks without forbidding students from patronizing their shops (ie, banning Starbucks).

Thanks for considering this.