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Starbucks Red Cup Controversy

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Starbucks Red Cup Controversy The famous Starbucks holiday cup is always decorated for the holiday season with little designs that go along with Christmas. This year a Starbuck’s controversy surfaced because this year Starbucks put up plain red cups and many people are going against this. This is because many people feel as if they are being discriminated from being religious or Christian. Starbucks usually puts festive snowflakes or of people sledding down hills to show the holiday season, but not this year. Josh Feuerstein, a former pastor living in Arizona, made a video to insult the red cups from Starbucks. In his video he talks about how Starbucks doesn 't have a Christmas look to it so that means that Starbucks is against

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