First the Christian cake shop, now the coffee shop

 

Oh Colorado, where Christians go to... be harassed.  A Christian coffee shop that began as a ministry to the homeless in Denver Colorado has run afoul of local communists and LGBTQrs activists by posting on their web site the Bible's guidance about homosexuality. 

From Fox News,

As part of this mission, Sanchez opened The Drip Café the next year. It's a regular coffee shop that also hires and mentors individuals who have completed the ministry’s program, and are sober and ready to reintegrate into the workforce.

"We've had a few people go through the project so far, and it's been very successful," he said.

However, even before The Drip Café opened its doors, Sanchez says they began receiving social media messages accusing the café of being anti-gay. On the opening day, protesters, organized by a local group called the Denver Communists, held signs and passed out flyers accusing the coffee shop of being run by a "right-wing church" that hated those in the LGBTQ community.

"I was in shock," Sanchez recalled. "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."

...His property has been vandalized, windows broken and "Keep Santa Fe Gay" stickers have been left on windows and mirrors. Recently, a spray-painted image of a KKK member hanging was left on the café's front door...

The Denver Communists told Fox News Digital they were not protesting the café strictly because it is Christian, but because of its religious beliefs on sexuality.

"There are plenty of Christian denominations that don’t share their bigoted view, such as the ELCA [Evangelical Lutheran Church in America] and we’ve been joined by pastors and many Christians in our protests. Since then Drip has doubled down on its homophobic position," a spokesperson for the group said. "Jamie and his bigoted coffee shop don’t have a monopoly on Christianity, but he sure is willing to try and profit off of it."

The communists say they view the protests as part of a "broader struggle" against forces like the Trump administration, which they say is attacking LGBTQ+ rights.

"We may not succeed in running the Drip out of town before the end of its lease, but that is ultimately irrelevant. 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," the group wrote in a blog post...

The stated goal of the Denver Communists is to "run the Drip out of town." That's a threat is it not? Don't they have hate crime legislation there? Is that legal? 

In Colorado, I guess it is permissible. Remember that Colorado is the state in which a Christian baker was taken to court on several occasions (all the way to the Supreme Court) for his beliefs.

Shouldn't the Denver Communists be the ones in legal trouble?

Alas, not in Colorado.