{"id":1214832,"date":"2022-01-13T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214832"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:34:44","slug":"liberal-restaurant-cancels-event-with-pro-life-democrats-after-learning-they-oppose-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-restaurant-cancels-event-with-pro-life-democrats-after-learning-they-oppose-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Restaurant Cancels Event With Pro-Life Democrats After Learning They Oppose Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-restaurant-cancels-event-with-pro-life-democrats-after-learning-they-oppose-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Busboys and Poets claims to hold &#8216;respectful conversations between diverse groups&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-scaled-e1642107655433.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-642133640-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tBusboys and Poets (Photo by Mario Tama\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 January 13, 2022 5:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A liberal Washington, D.C., restaurant that bills itself as a &#8220;venue for respectful conversations between diverse groups&#8221; canceled an event organized by a group of pro-life Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats for Life of America scheduled an event at Busboys and Poets, a popular progressive restaurant and bookstore, in advance of the March for Life on Jan. 21. This week, the restaurant contacted Democrats for Life executive director Kristen Day and inquired about the group&#8217;s stance on abortion. The restaurant canceled the event after it confirmed that Democrats for Life is pro-life.<\/p>\n<p>Busboys and Poets tells the<em> Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that it is a &#8220;safe space&#8221; that refuses to elevate voices it believes oppose human rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we welcome conversations from individuals expressing different viewpoints and pride ourselves on being a venue for respectful conversations between diverse groups, we are also a safe space,&#8221; a restaurant spokeswoman said. &#8220;As such, we can not knowingly accept events designed to fund an agenda which our community members believe to be trampling on the rights of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Day tells the <em>Free Beacon <\/em>that the Busboys and Poets representative who contacted her was &#8220;extremely rude.&#8221; She says she tried to emphasize that Democrats for Life is also pro-LGBTQ and anti-death penalty but that the representative seemed solely concerned with the group&#8217;s opposition to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Progressives talk about being inclusive, but then they turn people away because of what they believe,&#8221; Day said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very contradictory to what the message is supposed to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Busboys and Poets says it is a &#8220;home for progressives, artists, creatives and intellectuals.&#8221; Its six, soon to be seven, restaurants in the D.C. area have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/rich-socialist-restaurateur-lays-off-hundreds-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">hosted<\/a> events with extremists such as Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, former Communist Party USA leader Angela Davis, supporters of former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, and 9\/11 truthers.<\/p>\n<p>Busboys and Poets founder and CEO Andy Shallal has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/rich-socialist-restaurateur-lays-off-hundreds-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">accused<\/a> Israel of &#8220;terrorizing the Middle East&#8221; and &#8220;ethnically cleans[ing]&#8221; Palestinians. He also said the United States takes &#8220;marching orders from Tel Aviv.&#8221; Shallal in 2014 ran for mayor of D.C. with an endorsement from the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n<p>Day tells the <em>Free Beacon <\/em>that hostility toward her group has increased in recent years. Democrats for Life has historically met with the chair of the Democratic National Committee but was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dnc-chair-shuns-pro-life-democrats-as-supreme-court-reconsiders-roe\/\">shunned<\/a> last year for the first time in the group&#8217;s two-decade existence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When something like this happens it gives us the courage to keep going,&#8221; Day said. &#8220;We can&#8217;t let this stand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Busboys and Poets claims to hold &#8216;respectful conversations between diverse groups&#8217;  Busboys and Poets (Photo by Mario Tama\/Getty Images)  Patrick Hauf \u2022 January &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}