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The founder of a well-known pro-life organization has gone viral in recent days after reportedly being kicked out of an Idaho coffee shop after the owner learned she was holding a meeting there.<\/p>\n
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, shared a video of what purportedly took place at Wydaho Roasters last month \u2014 and that video went viral.<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Hawkins told CBN News that coffee shop owner Jim Sheehan made his displeasure known after she, her son, and others met to discuss pro-life issues inside Wydaho Roasters. Her son\u2019s goal has been to rally people against Proposition 1, an abortion measure that will be on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re recruiting door knockers, and we\u2019ve had students going door to door, educating people in Idaho about this extreme abortion ballot referendum, which sadly many people don\u2019t know about,\u201d Hawkins said, noting her son rallied people online to come meet to form a pro-life group to address the issue.<\/p>\n The coffee shop was the intended gathering place for the group\u2019s first meeting, but that didn\u2019t go very well.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had purchased our drinks and our food,\u201d she said. \u201cSome other leaders, community members, came to kind of join the group that I knew from church.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Hawkins, Sheehan came out of his office and told the group they couldn\u2019t meet at the shop and needed to leave. Hawkins took out her camera and started filming the interaction, hoping she could simply convince the owner to let them stay for the first meeting and then pledge not to return.<\/p>\n \u201cI was trying to negotiate with him, just like, let us finish this meeting; we won\u2019t come back,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then he just kept going and then compared us to the KKK and said, we were like the KKK, that pro-lifers were like the KKK, which was just beyond the pale. And that\u2019s actually why I decided to release the video.\u201d<\/p>\n Hawkins made it clear that she believes, as an owner, Sheehan has the right to refuse service and was within his rights to ask the group to leave. That said, she also believes in her right to expose his purported comparison between the pro-life activists and the KKK.<\/p>\n The result of the entire escapade was intense media coverage and viral video discussion. Ultimately, both Hawkins and Sheehan reportedly started getting death threats.<\/p>\n ***Please sign up for\u00a0CBN Newsletters\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to receive\u00a0the latest news from a Christian perspective.***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe was well within his rights to kick us out,\u201d Hawkins said. \u201cI was within my rights to expose his insanity, believing that community members were like the KKK, but neither of us deserves to die or receive death threats.\u201d<\/p>\n Sheehan\u00a0told Fox News\u00a0that he pushes back on claims the group was kicked out. He said he had asked via Facebook the day before that the group not meet in his coffee shop.<\/p>\n \u201cSunday she announced on a local community page they were holding this meeting at our business, naming it \u2014 I responded to the post politely asking them not to use our business as the agenda of the organization does not align with us,\u201d he\u00a0told\u00a0the outlet. \u201cThey showed up anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The founder of a well-known pro-life organization has gone viral in recent days after reportedly being kicked out of an Idaho coffee shop after the owner learned she was holding a meeting there. 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