Militant Denver Leftists harass disabled minorities over gender ideology
Radical Leftists in Denver are harassing coffee shop staff and patrons, who include minorities, disabled people, the elderly, and the homeless, because of the owner’s views on homosexuality.
Jamie Sanchez is a devout Christian and owner of The Drip Café, which serves as a haven for recovering addicts and the homeless. It’s an extension of Sanchez’s ministry, Recycle God’s Love, which provides them with food, clothing, housing, and job training. Those who benefit from Recycle God’s Love’s services can sometimes land a job at The Drip Café, where they earn a paycheck, receive mentorship, and rebuild their lives.
But because the Christian ministry opposes homosexuality, the coffee shop is regularly plagued with harassment, protests, and occasional vandalism by radical Left militants, who are led by a group called The Denver Communists.
Hate and vandalism
In the name of diversity and inclusion, the activists launched a protest against the shop on opening day and continue to do so every first Friday of the month.
"I was in shock," Sanchez said, recalling the hate demonstration on opening day. "Our whole purpose opening the café was to serve the homeless community and help people get off the street, change their lives. And here we got a group who just hates us because we're doing that, and we're Christian."
Activists have followed and shouted at two elderly women into the shop and harassed a Black and blind DJ.
"Here's this group trying to act inclusive, and they are harassing a Black blind guy in front of my café because he's Christian," Sanchez said.
The Drip Café’s windows have been smashed, and the storefront has been covered in stickers with slogans like “Keep Santa Fe Gay.” On one occasion, militants spray-painted an image of a hanging Klansman on the shop’s door.
Sanchez says his attempts to initiate a dialogue with the activists were met with either silence or abuse. After being ignored by Denver’s liberal authorities, he now holds live worship music every first Friday of the month to try to drown out the protests.
‘The message of queer liberation is being spread’
For their part, The Denver Communists are confident of their “victory” over Sanchez. They’re using the demonstrations not only to “spread the message” of gender orthodoxy, but also to train other militant activists.
"We may not succeed in running the Drip out of town before the end of its lease, but that is ultimately irrelevant,” the group wrote in a blog post. “The protests against the hate-café are serving as a training ground for new queer-rights activists, the message of queer liberation is being spread, and our ultimate victory, while delayed, is inevitable.”
A brown-skinned Hispanic neo-Nazi?
The group claims that Sanchez, who is Hispanic, is a neo-Nazi for opposing homosexuality—but the coffee shop owner says he responds with love.
"The communists have told me I'm not welcome, told me to kill myself, and my response is, 'I love you, and you are welcome to come in peacefully.' We have offered them free coffee and food on cold days," he told Fox News Digital. "It's very silly of them to say I am part of a Nazi group, considering I am a brown-skinned Hispanic."
