A Christian woman who once worked at a Starbucks store in North Carolina says she was fired for speaking out against displays of LGBT pride and the company’s pronoun policy.
Taylor Trice told her boss at the North Carolina Apex store that she doesn’t object to using customers’ names, but she doesn’t object to using preferred pronouns because that would mean lying. He said this in the video.
“I take my faith seriously and try to be as much like Jesus as I can,” she said. fox news digital. “According to my beliefs, you shouldn’t lie. I’ll be happy to call you by your name. I’ll avoid using pronouns you don’t want me to use, but it’s my fault to lie and say… It goes against the faith… If someone is a man, they are a woman, or if someone is a woman, they are a man.”
She objected to the store’s LGBT Pride display, claiming it contained edgy content and was not family-friendly. The display was “over the rainbow,” she said.
“I gave them a warning, like, ‘This can be taken the wrong way, so please be careful,'” Trice said. “Families and children come here, and they’ll read it. But writing it on a glass wall is probably not the best thing to display in public.”
Starbucks management has become “very defensive,” she said.
“Before I worked at Starbucks, I didn’t know anything about Starbucks other than that it was considered a bougie coffee shop,” Trice told Fox News Digital. “So I didn’t know it was a very liberal company.”
She said she was fired after receiving complaints.
“There were complaints of, ‘Oh, she’s uncomfortable with my identity,’ but I didn’t understand that because I was always talking to everyone there,” she said. “I have never insulted them or anything.”
Trice has since found another job. She is not angry with her former colleague, she said.
“I actually had a lot of fun with them and I love them. All I want to see is them go to heaven.”
A Starbucks spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the company “does not comment on this private employment matter.”
“However, Starbucks does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind in our stores and is committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued,” the spokesperson said. . “We look forward to all our partners [employees[ to abide by company policies and standards, including our anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
