星巴克杯子引争议--评论者称之促进了“同性恋议程”

Starbucks Coffee Cup Controversy As Critics Say It Promotes ‘Gay Agenda’

Conservatives, for the second time in the last week, are fuming over coffee. This time it involves Starbucks’ latest holiday cup that they claim features two women holding hands, and therefore is being used to promote “the gay agenda.”

保守派人士在过去的一周第二次因咖啡而发怒。这次涉及到星巴克最近的节日杯子，他们认为杯子上两个女人的手握在一起，实际上是用来促进“同性恋议程”的。

The brief commercial clearly shows two women gazing into each other’s eyes while holding hands around single steaming drink. “While people who follow both Starbucks holiday cup news and LGBT issues celebrated the video,the ordinary Starbucks customer probably didn’t realize the cup might have a gay agenda,” Buzzfeed reported.

商标上很清楚的标明了两个女人深情的看着彼此，她们的手共同握住一个杯子。“虽然同时关注星巴克杯子新闻和同性恋话题的人们庆祝了这个视频，但普通的星巴克消费者或许并没有注意到这个杯子和同性恋议程有关，”Buzzefeed报道。

Rufus Dowing在他的个人网页上写道：

“重大新闻：星巴克的圣诞活动将一对女同性恋印在了节日的杯子上”

In 2015, Starbucks’ holiday cups, a tradition since 1997, caused a stir because they were plain red and derided as beinga “war on Christmas.”

星巴克的圣诞杯子传统始于1997年，在2015年引起了一阵躁动，因为杯子上只有单纯的红色，被嘲笑为“圣诞节之战”。

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Pastor Steven Andrew of USA Christian Ministries, who previously claimed that “Starbucks hates God” over the company’s backing of gay rights, told the Christian Post that any company that favors marriage equality is “anti-God” and is “doing the devil’s work.”

美国宣教士斯蒂芬·安德鲁，因星巴克公司支持同性恋的权利，曾声称“星巴克恨恶上帝”。他告诉基督邮报，任何支持同性恋婚姻平等的公司都是“敌基督”，是在“做邪恶之事”。

For Andrew, his nonviolent protests did have a “biblical warrant.” “Boycotting anti-God companies is one way a Christian lives out the First Commandment,” the author of Making a Strong Christian Nation, told The Christian Post. “If you love Jesus, you won’t give your money to those working against Jesus, our Savior.”

对安德鲁来说，他的非暴力抗议确实有“圣经依据”。“抵制敌基督的公司是基督徒活出第一条诫命（除了我以外，你不可有别的神）的一种方式”，《建立坚固的基督国度》的作者告诉基督邮报，“如果你爱耶稣，你就不会把自己的钱给那些敌对我们救主耶稣的公司。”

He believed that if the stores in Sodom and Gomorrah that openly mocked God were boycotted, they could have possibly been saved. “God calls Christians and churches to not share in the sins of others. To love God is to flee sexual immorality. If we help the wicked, then God’s Word says God judges us (2 Chronicles 19:2). God calls Christians to 100 percent love Him and to 100 percent oppose sin.”

他相信，如果所多玛和蛾摩拉城里那些蔑视上帝的商店能被抵制的话，那里的人或许能被救。“神呼召基督徒和教会不要与世人同流合污。爱神就要远离奸淫的事情。如果我们帮助邪恶之人，那么神的审判就会临到我们（历代之下19：2）。神让基督徒要全心全意爱他，也要全心全意恨恶抵制罪恶。”

“Ungodly politicians, Starbucks, Nike, Amazon and others are doing the devil’s work … trying to ‘change’ our Christian laws into non-Christian laws … Every Christian and church should boycott companies making light of Jesus Christ. It is unwise for a Christian to give their money to those working against Jesus and leading people to sin and to possibly go to hell.”

“不敬虔的政客、星巴克、耐克、亚马逊都在做着邪恶之事······他们试图将基督徒的律法“改变”成非基督徒律法······每个基督徒和教会都应该抵制这样的公司，显出耶稣基督的光来。基督徒将钱给那些抵抗基督、引导人们犯罪、甚至领向地狱的公司，是非常不明智的。”