That’s my last latte at the airport Gloria Jeans
Posted by Scott on Monday 22 October 2007 Categories: Corporate stupidity, Religion Tags: Tags: coffee, FreedomFromFreedom, GloriaJeans, MySpace, PentecostalChurch |
Maybe I’m the last guy in Australia to know about this but the Gloria Jeans coffee shop franchise is co-owned by two men with close links to the Pentecostal Hillsong Church. In addition to this, Gloria Jeans is a major corporate sponsor of Mercy Ministries which “is a non-profit organization for young women who face life-controlling issues such as eating disorders, self-harm, drug and alcohol addictions, depression and unplanned pregnancy.” Mercy Ministries is strongly anti-abortion and views “lesbianism as a sin that their residential program assists girls to ‘walk in freedom from.’”
Even though Mercy Ministries (and therefore Gloria Jeans) fights for women’s freedom from freedom*, their possession of a MySpace page means they aren’t interested in fighting for freedom from bad web design.
* Thanks to Bruce for giving us this awesome phrase.
