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THOSE protesting the recent appearance of Drip Café in the heart of a gay area are claiming that its opening was a deliberate act of “political” provocation,” and are holding weekly protests in a bid to have it closed.

The Christian Post reports that owner Jamie Sanchez believes the Denver Communists and LGBT+ protesters were triggered by Scripture on the website of his coffee shop’s parent nonprofit Recycle God’s Love.

According to the group’s “What We Hold To Be True” page, the “homosexual lifestyle is contrary to God’s Word and purpose for humanity and is sin.”

The lively, well-attended protests prompted Sanchez to start a GiveSendGo fundraiser to help it stay afloat, saying that the protests have “driven away dozens of customers on multiple occasions.” As of today (Monday) he managed to raise $365.00 of a $15,000 target.

The fundraiser says:

The sidewalk outside the shop is consistently chalked with phrases like “F*ck off bigots” and “Anti-Queer Establishment” with arrows pointing toward the business. The shop front has been graffitied with spray paint saying “Bigots F*ck Off”. Two shop windows have been broken.

Image via Facebook/Denver Communists

In a Facebook post at the weekend, Denver Communists showcased a collectionof photographs of the protesters and said:

Drip came to fight! They set up as presence as their official church, Recycle God’s Love, and handed out free burgers in an attempt to evangelize the uninterested crowd.

Drip is bound up with a network of far-right filth. Their previous supporters included a youth minister from an anti-abortion church, a failed anti-abortionist Republican candidate for state rep, and some asshole who directed threats of violence and lewd sexual gestures toward gay rights protesters.

Their response demonstrates that Drip is a political project. They’ve come to fight for their political agenda—to oppose the hard-won rights and very existence of LGBTQ+ people. They know their ideas are repugnant to most, so they’ve chosen a strategy of “trojan horse evangelism,” smuggling their backwardness into a queer-friendly neighborhood by posing as a mere coffeeshop.

It said the protests will continue until Drip packs up its tent and moves elsewhere.

I suggest Afghanistan, where Sanchez’s will feel right at home with the Taliban.

I once helped shut down a Christian café in the UK for three days

In 2014 I got wind of the fact that the evangelical owner of Cornerstone Café in St Neots, Cambridgeshire—Paul Shinners, above— had traveled to Uganda where he stood on a stage at a National Day of Prayer event and spoke in favour of country’s proposed “Kill the Gays” Bill.

By reporting on his appearance in Uganda, I helped spark protests that led to the café’s closure for three days.

Image via YouTube

A reporter from a local paper, The Hunts Post, accused me in a phone call of sparking an unjust vendetta against a well-respected Christian. She then wrote a piece in which Shinners flat-out denied supporting the Bill.

The liar was quoted as saying that he had “no knowledge of the proposed Bill.”

Shinners, who also heads a charity called Passion for Souls, then threatened to sue me for defamation.

Did Shinners make good his threat to sue me? No, for the simple reason that video footage surfaced soon after which showed Shinners telling an ecstatic audience of his support for the Bill:

There is no other nation the world over that has such a plan and through this, Uganda is going to be blessed.

The person who managed to unearth Shinners’ video was Daniel Law, an astrophysics graduate from King’s College, Cambridge, and an amateur filmmaker who organised the Cornerstone protest.

Law later created a documentary, Exporting Hate, an expose of the activities of mainly American evangelists who travel abroad to incite violence against LGBT communities.

Cornerstone shut for good in 2015, blaming a hike in rent.

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