Denver leftists protest Christian coffee shop owner who helps the homeless

The owner of a Denver cafe is finding out there is some truth to the old adage “no good deed goes unpunished.”

Jamie Sanchez is the owner of The Drip Café, but when he’s not brewing up a cup of your favorite caffeinated beverage, he’s also running a homeless ministry called “Recycle God’s Love.” He started the organization in 2012 with his wife, who has since passed away from cancer.

What started as a small group offering Bible studies and meals for the homeless has grown into a community action that now includes churches, businesses and volunteers working together to improve the lives of those in desperate need of support.

But in a blue city like Denver, even something like feeding the homeless is controversial when the person doing it has different politics.

“It was really strange, actually, because we all of a sudden started getting like messages on Instagram about how we hate gay people and just like random comments like that,” Sanchez said, speaking to Fox News Digital.  “And come to find out there was like an organized group ready to protest the opening of our café before we even open. We did some digging, and we found out it was strictly because we were Christian.”

“Over the years, it has just grown into just an amazing community of believers and people who really have a heart to help people who are in need and to do it selflessly,” he said of his ministry.

“In 2022, Sanchez took the ministry a step further by launching ‘Project Revive,” a faith-based initiative designed to support homeless individuals seeking to rebuild their lives. The program helps the homeless access housing, transportation, identification, addiction counseling, and jobs — grounded in Christian discipleship,” Fox reported. “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.”

Sanchez said the project has been a success so far, but the social media hate began almost immediately after opening the coffee shop.

“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,” Fox wrote.

“I was in shock,” Sanchez said. “Our whole purpose in 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.”

The hate began over the Recycle God’s Love website, declaring homosexuality to be a sin, a commonly held belief among Christians.

“Despite attempts to engage with them peacefully, Sanchez says he’s been met mostly with silence or shouting,” the Fox article reads. “He said protesters followed two elderly women into the store one time and screamed at a blind Christian DJ on another occasion.”

“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 pointed out.

“I love them even though they don’t believe me and I’ve never shown anything but love to them and that’s why the only pictures they have of me is praying for them. I understand that they feel like they are having an identity crisis, and they might feel hopeless and lost and the only way to rectify that feeling is through the Son of God who is Jesus Christ.”

The Denver Communists gave a statement to Fox News Digital, claiming they are protesting the coffee shop for Sanchez’s views on homosexuality, not just because he is a Christian.

“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 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.”

“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,” reads a blog post from the group.

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,” Sanchez revealed. “It’s very silly of them to say I am part of a Nazi group, considering I am a brown-skinned Hispanic.”