An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune today reported that a Christan group called “The Resistance” has a problem with Starbucks. The group contends the limited edition cups that Starbucks is using to promote its new Pike Place Roast are offensive. The limited edition cup, (pictured) which is a redesign of the original Starbucks logo, shows a naked mermaid, naughty bits covered with long hair.

“It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks,” a news release from the group noted while also calling for a boycott of the coffee giant.

Seriously?

While the name “Slutbucks” is certainly catchy and I’m sure would attract a whole new demographic to the flagging coffee chain, I see no reason to plan on telling my friends I’ll  meet them at “the local Slutbucks” in the future.

The limited edition cup is just that - a cup. Sipping a four-dollar latte from it doesn’t make anyone less moral. Paying four dollars for a cup of coffee may be slightly immoral, but I digress.

The cup also doesn’t show anything that isn’t regularly splashed all over American television screens.

I find it absurd that people who call themselves Christians would find the paper coffee cups in our society the most worthy target of contempt. Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance and consequently have a much lower quality of life.

The economy is in a recession because of unsound and immoral fiscal policies that favor the rich while leaving the poor to fend for themselves and buy $4 a gallon gas.

We also now, proudly, have two educational systems - one for the wealthy and one for those has the misfortune to be born without a trust fun.

Did I forget to mention that the United States is fighting an unjust and unjustified war that has caused the deaths of more than 4,000 US soldiers and an estimated 500,000 Iraqi civilians?

I’m certainly glad we have “The Resistance” to police what our coffee cups look like. Once we have the coffee cups in line our society should be a positively Utopian Puritan paradise.