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But but but but.....It was a GAY B&B....that excuses it.
As a gay man, I don't see what the fuss was about, if the guys didn't like the ladies policy, then get their a$$es in their car and find another hotel. No need for a lawsuit.
Whatever happened to the term "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"??
I guess it now means "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, except blacks, latinos, gays, asians, sex offenders, drug addicts, convicts, etc"
Applause for you....
You actually grasp that some might not like you and that is that....
Sorry but they new the rules these people had about marriage, they were posted on the site when they booked the room, homosexual activists had already complained, they knew before they went there, it was all a set up, better read your article.
So if you announce your intent to break the law, it therefore means you can?
How about if it is your home you make the rules? If it was my B&B and my home it would be unwise to not be able to refuse service to whomever I wanted, for whatever reason I wanted.
"Mr Preddy booked a room at the B&B in 2008 and Mrs Bull assumed he was bringing his wife with him. When he arrived with his civil partner Mr Hall, the pair were refused a double room by the manager Bernie Quinn, who instead offered them seperate single rooms."
"Outside court Mrs Bull said the result was a disappointment. 'Our double-bed policy was based on our sincere beliefs about marriage, not hostility to anybody,' she said."
Way to go!!! Too bad this type of discrimination against gays and lesbians - the denial of service at a hotel, restaurant, dry cleaner, etc. based on sexuality or perceived sexuality - is legal throughout most of the United States. When will the US stop treating gays and lesbians as second class citizens?
I'm going to have to disagree here.
I'm a small government guy, I don't want the government telling anyone they have to serve anyone else on their own private property.
If a black owned grocery store doesn't want to serve me because I'm white, well, thats their right. If I want to open a bar that allows smoking, and you don't like smoking, don't go there.
I would never go to a B&B that denied homosexuals service, I can vote with my money. But I don't want to tell a private business owner they have to do something or serve someone that they don't want to serve.
"Mr Preddy booked a room at the B&B in 2008 and Mrs Bull assumed he was bringing his wife with him. When he arrived with his civil partner Mr Hall, the pair were refused a double room by the manager Bernie Quinn, who instead offered them seperate single rooms."
"Outside court Mrs Bull said the result was a disappointment. 'Our double-bed policy was based on our sincere beliefs about marriage, not hostility to anybody,' she said."
Way to go!!! Too bad this type of discrimination against gays and lesbians - the denial of service at a hotel, restaurant, dry cleaner, etc. based on sexuality or perceived sexuality - is legal throughout most of the United States. When will the US stop treating gays and lesbians as second class citizens?
I'm just pointing out and upset with the double standard - the inequitable treatment under the law.
When it comes to businesses that accommodate the public, in most of the US it is perfectly legal for a Christian to discriminate against a gay. However, it is illegal for a gay to discriminate against a Christian.
In most of the US, a Christian hotel owner can discriminate against gay people by denying them service. However, in all of the US, a gay hotel owner is forbidden by law from discriminating against Christians and denying them service.
Under English law, the hotel is a commercial enterprise and subject to community standards, rather than private ones. Under those standards it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, etc.
I'm just pointing out and upset with the double standard - the inequitable treatment under the law.
When it comes to businesses that accommodate the public, in most of the US it is perfectly legal for a Christian to discriminate against a gay. However, it is illegal for a gay to discriminate against a Christian.
In most of the US, a Christian hotel owner can discriminate against gay people by denying them service. However, in all of the US, a gay hotel owner is forbidden by law from discriminating against Christians and denying them service.
How is that fair????
Its not fair, I want everyone to be allowed to discriminate against everyone.
I'm a small government guy, I don't want the government telling anyone they have to serve anyone else on their own private property.
If a black owned grocery store doesn't want to serve me because I'm white, well, thats their right. If I want to open a bar that allows smoking, and you don't like smoking, don't go there.
I would never go to a B&B that denied homosexuals service, I can vote with my money. But I don't want to tell a private business owner they have to do something or serve someone that they don't want to serve.
I think there are signs people put up in stores etc. that say "we reserve the right to refuse service".
Whatever that means.
I've seen signs like this before. Never seen that exercised against someone of an ethnicity or sexual persuasion.
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