tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post6849044370224268626..comments2023-10-10T09:10:43.247-05:00Comments on Christ's Faithful Witness: Pro-Life Coffee: A Lifeboat Tendered to Those Drowning in the Great Sea of the Culture of DeathLawrence and Susan Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-50571203043068241362015-04-08T12:30:21.363-05:002015-04-08T12:30:21.363-05:00Bought Lifeboat Coffee for Easter gifts this year!...Bought Lifeboat Coffee for Easter gifts this year!! So happy to have a great company to give my money to!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-68338353359589191042015-03-11T19:03:55.058-05:002015-03-11T19:03:55.058-05:00PJ, I was thinking later. Fasting is not easy and ...PJ, I was thinking later. Fasting is not easy and I don't do it well at all.But I was taught correctly if you have a choice between two goods, choose the one that will cause you to die to yourself the most. The hard choice. God bless you. Susan Lawrence and Susan Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-35351194770365524682015-03-09T02:13:53.780-05:002015-03-09T02:13:53.780-05:00PJ, dear, you have a very sensitive conscience. Yo...PJ, dear, you have a very sensitive conscience. You can do what you wish. If you need to drink a latte, let's pray that John LIllis is able to put his coffee on the road as he discusses in this piece. Otherwise, yes, McDonald's is not an option for me either for coffee because it has sugar. But in Colorado there are little coffee chains like Dazbog started by two immigrants of the Soviet Union and Ink! They are like Starbucks, but not Starbucks. Nordstrom has a latte place like Starbucks. Look around. There is probably a Starbucks substitute nearby where you are going. It was an old reflexive habit of mine to seek out the nearest green lady (Starbucks), but once I firmly put her out of my life, God showed me other possibilities. And that's good for unborn people because of customers like me, Starbucks has stopped advertising its connection to Planned Parenthood -- the largest abortion provider in the United States, and clearly on the side of evil. But feel free to run into their bathrooms. I do. I just don't buy anything. God bless you. SusanLawrence and Susan Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-6404723220166918872015-03-08T21:16:00.385-05:002015-03-08T21:16:00.385-05:00I forgot to mention that McDonald's is not an ...I forgot to mention that McDonald's is not an alternative for me because they do not offer decaf coffee. SFBayPJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11002609793806487525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-46538805399578638262015-03-08T18:17:56.404-05:002015-03-08T18:17:56.404-05:00All valid points, and I appreciate learning about ...All valid points, and I appreciate learning about Lifeboat coffee. If I just want to buy a bag of coffee beans, then that's a great alternative. But if I want a cup of coffee when traveling, a clean restroom, a safe venue to conduct business away from the office, then I don't think it's easy to point to a real alternative to Starbucks. (They own Peets Coffee now, and others.) Here's a suggestion for folks like me who are not ready to boycott Starbucks absolutely. If I get a craving for "Bugs"--that's our nickname for it--while I'm just running around town doing errands, then I can often summon the will power to turn to my iPhone instead and enter an x on my "Bugs" list in the Notes app. After I get so many x's, I figure out how much I've saved by not buying my favorite drink and donate it to a pro-life charity. This exercises my feeble virtue of temperance and diverts at least some of Starbucks' potential $$ to pro-life work. What do you think?SFBayPJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11002609793806487525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-52376953118881590932015-03-07T21:23:15.787-06:002015-03-07T21:23:15.787-06:00This document lists the 379 companies, the Amici C...<br />This document lists the 379 companies, the Amici Curiae, who support same sex "marriage." <br /><br />https://www.morganlewis.com/documents/supportingdocs/MLB_Employers_Amicus_Brief-Obergefell-v-Hodges.pdf<br /><br />Here's a partial list of corporate donors to Planned Parenthood from last year: http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/04/20/corporate-donors-planned-parenthood-abortion-mill/<br /><br />Planned Parenthood of Washington D.C. currently lists: "A partial list of companies with Corporate Matching Gift Programs includes: AT&T, Alcoa, American Express, Avon Products, Black & Decker, Circuit City, Citibank, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fidelity Investments, Ford Motor Company, Gannett, James River Corporation, Merck & Company, Microsoft Corporation, Motorola, Phillip Morris, T. Rowe Price, Prudential Insurance, Safeco Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Sunoco, Vanguard Group, Verizon, Washington Post Company, White & Case, Xerox Corporation<br />Lawrence and Susan Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-40967082143357856262015-03-07T21:22:38.340-06:002015-03-07T21:22:38.340-06:00Dearest PJ,
It’s true that Apple, Facebook, Twitt...Dearest PJ,<br /><br />It’s true that Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T, American Express, Hewlett-Packard Co, Estee Lauder et al filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting same sex marriage with the U.S. Supreme Court. But here’s how you discern the matter.<br /><br />IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE? In the case of Apple and Microsoft, there is no alternative. They are the only major computer manufacturers. We are using these instruments to write to one another right now. But in the case of printers, Lawrence and I have -- at great sacrifice -- refused to pay one dime for an HP. I have drooled looking at HP printers for years, but we use Epson. Epson is not among the 379 companies that supported same sex marriage.<br /><br />Not only that, Lawrence is an electrical engineer, and professionally, he will not design anything with a Hewlett-Packard manufactured item in it. He always finds alternatives. HP’s stance has cost it money. <br /><br />There are numerous alternatives to Facebook & Twitter, but these social media are still an important means of getting the pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage message across. <br /><br />In the early 1990s, a kindly priest told us that Our Lady said this: “Satan is on the Internet. I want to be there too.” For that reason, and that reason alone, my family and I purchased a computer and started using email. We thought it was a strange thing to do, but if Our Blessed Mother wanted to be on the Internet, we would put her there. That’s all there is to it. And surely Our Lady wants to be on Twitter and Facebook as well despite its compromised stance on same sex “marriage,” which Our Lady, of course, opposes, as does her Son. <br /><br />But with respect to Starbucks, they have not only tried to destroy the Defense of Marriage Act, supported same sex marriage before the Supreme Court, but they also have supported the largest abortion provider in the United States, Planned Parenthood. AT&T has done the same thing. T-Mobile is not on the list of companies that supported same sex "marriage." <br /><br />In 2013, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz publicly told one of his shareholders to take a hike when he complained that the company’s support for same sex “marriage” was eroding its bottom line. He told him he could invest his money somewhere else. <br /><br />Like John Lillis said, perhaps many companies are compromised, but you don’t have to dig deep to find out what is wrong with Starbucks. Not only that, but I just finished a three-year fast from all coffee because I didn’t know of an alternative. Now I do – Lifeboat Coffee. <br /><br />In World War II, there were shortages of things, and the American people made sacrifices because they believed the war effort demanded it. My mother used to drink her coffee with cream and sugar, but when I knew her (after 1953) she drank it black because she had gotten in the habit during World War II of doing without sugar. <br /><br />If that American generation can fast for a just American war, surely our generation can fast in support of human life and the preservation of marriage. <br /><br />If there are alternatives, I am going to use them. <br /><br />Especially now, should we continue our habit of boycotting who we know is wrong because there’s evidence that Starbucks is trying to hide its support for Planned Parenthood. That’s a form of victory! Rejoice. <br /><br />God bless you. SusanLawrence and Susan Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-66600325776773182392015-03-07T17:21:46.867-06:002015-03-07T17:21:46.867-06:00Brilliant post. It is the small things done with g...Brilliant post. It is the small things done with great love (Ste. Therese). Sp it is with this little start-up Gospel of Life coffee company! Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-48060443097204805292015-03-07T08:49:40.148-06:002015-03-07T08:49:40.148-06:00Apple computer (I'm typing this on one), South...Apple computer (I'm typing this on one), Southwest Airlines, Microsoft... The list of companies that make indispensable products and that support abortion, gay marriage, etc. is endless. We can't escape entanglement. Starbucks we can boycott, yes, but what we really need to do is change the culture, and we begin first with our own conversion, and then by prayer and work. SFBayPJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11002609793806487525noreply@blogger.com