A TikTok user is currently going viral after she revealed that she was fired from Starbucks because of her Christian values and now she’s sharing her experience with Fox News.
During the conversation with Fox News Digital, Taylor Trice says she started to have problems at work when she got concerned about the adult content in the coffee shop’s Pride Month displays. “I had given them a warning saying like…you guys might want to be careful because this can be taken the wrong way,” Trice said. “We have families and children coming in here, and they’ll read that, and it’s just…probably not best for public display to have that written on the glass walls.”
The young woman went on to explain that things went down hill for her at the job after she didn’t follow Starbucks’ enforcement of its preferred pronoun policy. Trice says she explained that she was willing to call customers by their names and avoid using certain pronouns as a sign of respect, but that using “wrong” pronouns went against her conscience. “I take my faith seriously, and I try to be as much like Jesus as I can,” she said. “According to my faith, you’re not supposed to lie. I’m willing to call you by your name. I’m willing to avoid using the pronouns you don’t want me to use, but it’s against my faith to lie and say… someone is a woman if they’re a man or if someone is a man if they’re a woman.”
Trice then shared that her managers approached her and stated that customer made complains about her.
“There was a complaint that someone had made that, ‘Oh, I just feel like she is not comfortable with my identity,’ which I do not understand because I would talk to everyone there all the time,” she told Fox News Digital. “I was never making insults towards them or anything.”
However, since getting fired from Starbucks Trice says that she doesn’t have any hard feelings towards her former managers and she also says that she’s been getting a lot of support from people online since sharing her story.
“I received a lot of support, and I was very grateful for that, to see that I’m not alone in the way that I think,” she described.
“You know, obviously there was some backlash…but it was just really refreshing to see that, you know, I’m not alone in how I view this situation and how I view what the Bible says.”
“I think God has provided for me ever since, I’ve been able to work with other Christians, and right now I’m a house cleaner, and I really like it. I’m proud of speaking up…. I just consider it as something that helps me to grow my faith.”
Fox Digital reached out to Starbucks for a comment on this viral story and the multinational chain said it “will not comment on this private employment matter.”
“However, Starbucks has no tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind in our stores, and we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone is welcome, respected and valued,” a Starbucks spokesperson said.
“However, Starbucks has no tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind in our stores, and we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone is welcome, respected and valued,” a Starbucks spokesperson said.
This clearly applies to everyone else except to Christians, I assume?
Stop visiting this shop, boycott