Conservatives Protest Starbucks' Newest Holiday Cups, And It's Not About Jesus This Time

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It's just not the holiday season without a Starbucks cup controversy.

You can't play Christmas music on November 1 or any other premature arbitrary date. The season doesn't start until the "War on Christmas" folks are attacking Starbucks cups.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) November 17, 2017

This year, conservatives are pointing out a very small detail of the current Starbucks cup design:

Photo: Joshua Trujillo/Starbucks

You see those two hands, top left? Well, the Christian right is CONVINCED those hands belong to lesbians and that the cups are pushing a gay agenda.

Hey @FoxNews viewers! Fight the Starbucks gay agenda by buying several venti mochas from your local Starbucks and pouring them out on camera! That’ll show ‘em!#TheResistance https://t.co/lNWR1gXS5E
— 1 True Me 🏳️‍🌈 (@1_True_Me) November 17, 2017

With everything else that's going on, conservatives having a culture war meltdown about Starbucks cups seems like an anachronistic throwback
— Bill Humphrey 🌳🌀 Climate Emergency (@BillHumphreyMA) November 17, 2017

I never wanted to lick another man's balls quite as badly as I have since those Starbucks happy holidays cups pushin the gay agenda came out
— Brendan Kelly (@badsandwich) November 17, 2017

Oddly enough, Buzzfeed News seems to be responsible for drawing attention to this.

After Starbucks released a video featuring a lesbian couple...

We're loving @Starbucks' new festive ad with a lesbian couple. Can someone draw us a @LadyGaga cup please? https://t.co/HLjTufRFu8
— British LGBT Awards (@BritLGBTAwards) November 6, 2017

...people happily tweeted that they believed the hand-holders on the cups are the lesbians from the ad:

Great new #christmas campaign from @Starbucks featuring #lesbian couple on the Holiday Cup. pic.twitter.com/GJ6YGG0fGQ
— Rufus Dowling (@rufusdowling) November 13, 2017

Hey social media, are the "Christians" bitching about @Starbucks red cup & inclusive message yet? PS, I'm going w/the hand holders are gay 😁 pic.twitter.com/eDrwEIenHt
— Krista 😸 (@durantigger) November 1, 2017

Which inevitably drew the wrong kind of attention:

The new Starbucks cup has lesbian couple on it. Rom 1:26 “because of this,God gave them over to shameful lust”...
— Jimmy H Peralez (@h_peralez) November 2, 2017

This Year's Starbucks Holiday Campaign Features a Lesbian Couple https://t.co/EVxGYnNcNe
— Conservative#MAGA (@farriskent) November 8, 2017

This Year's Starbucks Holiday Campaign Features a Lesbian Couple https://t.co/v8fjOlhAmF via @mrctv #BoycottStarbucks @FoxNews
— Gabe 🇱🇷✝️ ✭ (@RNDACS) November 7, 2017

Guess we will see how this controversy evolves over the holiday season.

H/T: Twitter, GrubStreet