(LifeSiteNews) — LGBT activists in Colorado have a new target: a Christian coffee shop owner who runs a ministry dedicated to helping the homeless.
Jamie Sanchez owns The Drip Café in Denver, situated on Santa Fe Drive in the Art District. The coffee shop opened in 2024, but the business is part of Sanchez’s broader efforts to reach the homeless. In 2012, he and his wife, Carolyn, who passed away after a battle with cancer in 2018, launched a ministry called “Recycle God’s Love” that provided meals and Bible studies for the homeless of the area.
As the New York Post reported, the ministry grew rapidly “into a widespread community initiative, involving churches, local businesses, and volunteers, providing hundreds of people with everything from haircuts to food and clothing and housing.” In 2022, the ministry expanded with “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.”
The Drip Café, founded in 2024, was another expansion of Sanchez’s mission. It’s a business, of course, but it is also a “next step” in his ministry to the homeless, hiring people who have gone through the Project Revive program, are newly sober, and need a new start. The coffee shop is a sort of workforce halfway house, with Sanchez mentoring those he hires and helping them prepare for the next steps they wish to take in their lives.
The problem, for LGBT activists and their allies, is that Sanchez’s ministry is Christian — and they have come after his coffee shop with a vengeance, launching a series of vicious monthly protests that are still ongoing:
LGBTQ activists and communists are protesting against a coffee shop in Denver, CO, because they are Christian-owned.
This same coffee shop, which helps the homeless, has reportedly been the subject of monthly protests by these same unhinged activists.pic.twitter.com/v0N73Puekc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 8, 2025
“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 told 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.”
The barrage of hatred happened before the coffee shop even formally opened; LGBT activists discovered that the Recycle God’s Love website refers to homosexuality as a sin on the “Beliefs” section of the website. Denunciatory social media messages began pouring in, and LGBT activists, organized by the Denver Communists, protested the shop’s opening with signs, fliers, and weird, sexualized costumes.
“I was in shock,” Sanchez said. “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.” The activists, of course, do not care that Sanchez’s ministry has had great success in helping the homeless or that the shop they are protesting is assisting society’s most marginalized in transitioning to regular life. They only care that Christians do not affirm their lifestyles.
The protesters are determined to shut Sanchez down. According to the New York Post, “his property has been vandalized, windows broken and ‘Keep Santa Fe Gay’ stickers have been left on windows and mirrors … a spray-painted image of a KKK member hanging was left on the café’s front door.” At one point, protesters intimidated two elderly women by following them into the café; in another incident, they screamed at a blind Christian DJ. The protests were first organized every weekend; up to 20 people still gather outside the coffee shop once a month.
Sanchez is frustrated but determined to show his Christian convictions to those protesting him — even though they refuse to talk to him. “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,” he said. “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.”
For their part, the Denver Communists have stated in a blog post that their harassment will continue. “We may not succeed in running the Drip out of town before the end of its lease, but that is ultimately irrelevant,” they wrote. “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.”
Despite facing defamatory insults from the activists, including one that the Hispanic Christian is actually a Nazi — and being told to “kill himself” — Sanchez has offered them free coffee and invited them inside. “My response is: ‘I love you, and you are welcome to come in peacefully,’” Sanchez said.
