Rehoboth restaurant target of small Christian protest
A small group of Christian protesters performed a Catholic ritual outside of Rehoboth Beach’s The Pines on Saturday, where the restaurant was scheduled to host a drag fundraiser for U.S.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.). The six demonstrators, though, weren’t protesting the drag performers, nor were they protesting the gay-owned restaurant and bar.
They protested what they said was Blunt Rochester’s “violation of her oath of office” for about 15 minutes, the restaurant’s co-owner, Bob Suppies, said.
They were “really friendly” and just recited the rosary, a Catholic prayer, he said. “I thought it was nice,” Suppies, who was raised Catholic, said. “And it’s their right to do that.” Local conservative talk show host Jake Smith, who falsely claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former president Donald Trump and said that “not every Muslim is guilty, but every Muslim is suspect” of sympathizing with Islamic extremists in 2015, called for the protest on his Tuesday, June 6 WGMD show and filed for a protest permit on Friday.
