A gay coffee shop owner kicked out religious mouth-breathers & conservatives are outraged

[DonViejo]

By Alex Bollinger · Monday, October 9, 2017

Right wing blogs are enraged that a gay coffee shop owner kicked out a group of anti-choice religious nutjobs. The group was handing out pamphlets in Seattle that called abortion sinful and showed an image of bloody hands and rainbows. They took a break at Bedlam Coffee and went to the upstairs seating area.

At some point, the owner of the coffee shop, Ben Borgman, went upstairs with one of the pamphlets and asked the activists to leave. They asked why they were being told to leave, and he pointed to one of the pamphlets and said, “This is offensive to me.”

A heated discussion ensued that was recorded and posted on Facebook by the anti-choice group Abolish Human Abortion. Borgman is agitated, telling the activists to “shut up” and leave.

One of the activists tells him that she tolerates his presence (so he has to tolerate everything she does?), to which he responded, “If I go get my boyfriend and fuck him in the ass right here you’re going to tolerate that? Are you going to tolerate it?”

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/10/gay-coffee-shop-owner-kicked-religious-mouth-breathers-conservatives-outraged/

[muntrv]

1. So much for private property rights.

[Doreen]

2. Yup, they expect to be allowed to be prejudice against others

but others not be allowed to be like that to them. The restaurant owner would have been kicked out of their business so why the hell not the other way?

[Wellstone ruled]

4. This has and is their message from the get go.

[Downtown Hound]

3. I see, only they should have the right to refuse service to people they don't agree with

Got it.

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. "If I go get my boyfriend and fuck him in the ass right here youre going to tolerate that?"

Uhhh yeah, um I don't think ANY of his customers should have to answer that question.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

6. All the coffee shop owner had to say was:

"It is contrary to my STRONGLY HELD BELIEFS to serve someone with YOUR lifestyle."
Game over.

[raven mad]

7. I've begun to seriously question the sanity of the "religious right".

Collectively they're not nice.

[Initech]

20. I've been following the religious right since 9/11.

They were insane then. 16 years later, they've only got worse. And now they think they have a free pass to the White House under Trump. Scary.

[yardwork]

28. Ive been following them since the 1970s. I grew up with a lot of them.

As a group, they are irrational, disconnected from reality, and highly paranoid. The right-wing Republicans politicized them in the 1980s - creating the Religious Right - and poured money on them. They built mega-churches and expanded into a vast network.

They’re still divorced from reality and highly paranoid. And now they vote in droves.

[Ilsa]

30. And they don't care that DOTUS is just using them,

that he has little in common with their core beliefs.

Talked to an old friend this weekend. She voted for him for business reasons, but can't stand him personally. I guess her christian principles weren't important enough this time.

[bitterross]

24. I don't believe "sanity" and "religious right" are ever proper in the same sentence.

The two just don't go together.

[Doreen]

8. Where in Seattle is this and what is the name?

When I get back from Canada I want to go and have their coffee and congratulate them on an awesome job.

[DonViejo]

9. Follow the link in the OP, I'm sure you'll learn the name of the place

[mythology]

27. Or even just read the part copied in the original post

[niyad]

10. here you go":

Bedlam Coffee
2.9427 Google reviews
$ · Coffee Shop
Coffee, tea, flavored toasts & desserts are served in a colorful room with mismatched chairs.
Address: 2231 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121
Hours: Open today · 6AM–10PM







Menu: places.singleplatform.com
Phone: [phone]
Suggest an edit

[Doreen]

13. Thank You. My boyfriend and I will go when we get back.

[niyad]

15. you are most welcome.

[Initech]

11. "Hey! They can't do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!"

[underpants]

12. Kicked them out for WHAT they were doing not WHO they are

That's the difference.

[Hortensis]

14. Not all antagonisms are best expressed, and certainly not in this guy's style.

"When they go low, we go high." Michelle Obama

[cwydro]

26. Yes.

What you said.

[yardwork]

29. As a gay person, I wish that hed represented with more class.

[Hortensis]

31. Well, at least maybe that and the willingness to mix confounded a cliche

in those minds, even if such expansive lessons are extremely unlikely to stick.

[mreilly]

16. Oh, but what about "private enterprises can do as they like?"

... or does that only apply to bigots who refuse to make wedding cakes for gay couples?

The hypocrisy never stops with these people. It is endless. It is eternal. It. Never. Stops.

[nocalflea]

17. Gotta wonder if they set the owner up.

They love to flip the script.

Intolerant libs
Racist libs
Violent libs

[Downtown Hound]

18. Let them

Every time they try just respond with, "This is what you have been fighting for the right to do for years. How do you like it now that it's on the other foot?"

[nocalflea]

19. Oh, it doesn't bother me. I think it's rather childish.

But, I do like your response (in case they ever do piss me off).

[AtheistCrusader]

22. There is a pride flag hanging prominently on the front, but

these abortion activists aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, so to speak. Hard to say.

[AtheistCrusader]

21. Those people have been hanging around a 2-3 square block area for weeks now.

Obnoxious as all get-out, screaming at everyone with a car-battery powered bullhorn.

Yeah, ok, you've got your first amendment, freedom of expression and all that, but you don't have to be fucking dicks about it. Waving photos of an aborted fetus in my kid's face, (he's 8) is a good way to provoke something very different than sympathy for your 'issue' from me.

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. "I like ass. I'd fuck Jesus in the ass!"

Sorry, I know its not supposed to be our script about going high when they go low, but damn I love it when these insulated brainwashed holier-than-thous, who just presume that everybody who's anybody obviously agrees with them, receive such a shock to the system like that.

[elias7]

25. nobody fucks with the Jesus!