What Have We Become?

In today’s modern society it would seem almost impossible that a group of people could be thrown out of a public establishment for who they were and what they believed in. However, that is exactly what has happened by a gay coffee shop owner in what is supposed to be one of the most tolerant cities in the country, Seattle, Washington.

The story begins with a group of young Christian pro-life activists walking in the neighborhood handing out pamphlets and talking about what they believe is a modern-day holocaust, abortion. After some time on the streets, Caytie Davis, one of the Christians in the group, said they decided to stop into Bedlam Coffee to rest and have a drink.

I think this would be a good spot to bring attention to the name of the shop, “Bedlam.” Oh the irony, you couldn’t make up something so fitting. Bedlam is a synonym for chaos, confusion, turmoil or crazy. It is also the nickname of a very famous psychiatric hospital in London. After watching the video and witnessing this man’s behavior, there is no doubt that he named the place properly.

What had happened next caught them completely offguard, they weren’t expecting this, nobody would’ve expected this. According to Davis they had not gone in there with any of their pamphlets and they did not interact with the other customers. In fact they were just sitting there amongst themselves and that’s when it happened.

Davis described to Liberator that the owner burst in, shouting,

“You have to leave. This is offensive to me… I have the right to be offended.”

“We were all taken aback because we had no idea what he was talking about,” Davis said. The owner then showed them a pamphlet he had found and demanded to know if it belonged to them. The pamphlet featured an image of an aborted child, as well as rainbow colored imagery along with an explanation of what the rainbow means according to scripture.”

“None of us had dropped anything in the store,” Davis said. “But we told him yes, it was one that we had been handing out in the city, and asked where he’d found it. He told us he found it outside.”

Excuse me?!

So, just to be clear, a group of people walked into a coffee shop, the owner of the coffee shop doesn’t like how they were behaving outside of his coffee shop and tells them that they have to leave. But why? When Jonathan Sutherland, one of the other members of the Christian group, asked why, the coffee shop owner went on a disgusting, graphic, vulgar tirade.

Sutherland pointed out that the literature had been found on public property, but the owner repeatedly cut him off, saying

“Shut up! Shut up!”

“So you’re not willing to tolerate our presence?” Sutherland asked.

“Will you tolerate my presence?” the coffee shop owner responded. Sutherland replied, “We’re actually in your coffee shop,”

“Really?” the owner barked back at him. “If I go get my boyfriend and f*ck him in the a** right here you’re going to tolerate that?”

“That would be your choice,” Sutherland answered. But the owner would not be persuaded. “Are you going to tolerate it?” he asked again. “Answer my f***ing question! No, you’re going to sit right here and f***ing watch it!” “Well, we don’t want to watch that,” said Caleb Head, another member of the group.

Wait, What?

Let’s pause here again to take a quick break from this man’s obvious mental illness and look at what he is comparing. He somehow equates people on the street handing out pro-life pamphlets to him having sexual intercourse with his partner in the dining room of an establishment that serves food.



I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t matter if the couple was gay or straight, if somebody is sitting there drinking their coffee and having breakfast while somebody is having sex next to them, they may have a problem with it.

OK back to the guys insanity.

“Well than I don’t have to f*cking tolerate this!” the disturbed man said. “Leave! All of you. Tell all your f*cking friends, don’t f*cking come here.”

As the group was leaving Davis decided to share the message of salvation through Jesus Christ.

“Yeah, I like a**,” the owner retorted. “I’m not going to be saved by anything. I’d f*ck Christ in the a**. Ok? He’s hot.”

As they exited, Davis commented, “Seattle has proved itself to not be tolerant.”

“Don’t act so f***ing shocked b**ch,” the owner said. “Get the f*ck out.”

Gay or straight, this is unacceptable

Now, just imagine for a moment if the tables were turned. If a group of people, whether they were gay or liberal pro abortion activist, we’re handing things out in the street and then walked into a Christian coffee shop and the coffee shop owner said “get out. “

Perhaps he disagreed with what they had been doing prior to them entering his place of business, well, so what, it’s really none of his business. What exactly do you think would be on every nightly news broadcast for a week? Well we know the answer to that question because whether it’s a baker that wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a gay couple, a florist that didn’t want to partake in a gay wedding or a photographer who refused to photograph a gay wedding the media pounced on them.

The baker, to this day, is still going through court battles over what he believes is protecting his freedom of expression. Now I’m not necessarily saying I agree or disagree here with this coffee shop owner refusing these people service, but at some point the law has to create a precedence that applies to everybody equally.

If this coffee shop owner is allowed to throw people out of his shop because he does not like what they represent then there is no reason why any other establishment that is open to the public can’t do the exact same thing. Since when is “I have a right to be offended“ a legal argument for throwing someone out of your place of business?

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