Those gays and the hotel law suit

[mollykins]

Do you think the outcome of the sueing by those two gay men against the christian hotel owners would have been the same if the hotel owners were of a different religion (that's equally against homosexuality) such as Islam?

[seadogg]

Nice little spot on short cut from Thirsk to A1. We always let the dog out of the car there for a breather en route to the Lakes

[Mick-Talbot]

ah just read your other post doc, so it is much later.

of course they should keep up with legislation jack.
I still think this was a set up (no, i have no evidence) If the couple had set up their hotel business after the discrimination act was passed i would not have any sympathy at all. I don't understand or even want to get into the religious aspects of it, but this old couple were stuck in their ways (they discriminated against heterosexual couples too remember) The gay couple should have looked elsewhere.

I know full well i would not want to stop anywhere that insisted i was married to the woman at the side of me. I would move on just as soon as the question was posed.


late reply, but Emmerdale ..........

[Mick-Talbot]

o dear Whiskey, how long have you been chomping on the bit?
you seem well into the swing of it , now you have overcome your initial fear.

[jackthehat]

Nothing constructive to add, WR ? No surprise there.............

If you have booked a hotel and turn up expecting to stay, it is humiliating to be turned away because of a 'house-rule' of which you are unaware.

Mr Preddy and partner obviously made other (hurried) arrangements, afterwards.

[Mick-Talbot]

You, or I, do not know that to be fact jack.
They seem very thorough to me.

[jackthehat]

I'm not sure I understand you.........

[joeluke]

I'm sure Mr and Mr Preddy already had themselves booked into an alternative hotel in the area

Booking probably made at the same time as the one at the christians hotel

Pity hotel owner where they did actually stay doesn't come forward and say as such

[jackthehat]

Speculate all you like, joeluke...............

[whiskeryron]

jth //I read that the hotel were expecting a mr and mrs. I read that a worker at the hotel made reference to a phone call from Mrs Preedy, or whatever the name was (doc)// I think they knew very well the feelings of the B&B owners & decided to take them for what they could get.

[bednobs]

i don't understand how this post is still going after 150 posts. Surely both sides must realise by now they are not going to change the others' views, or even make the "other side" see your point of view

[Mick-Talbot]

I'm not on a 'side'

[jackthehat]

"When we booked to stay at the Chymorvah Hotel this was not, as some have suggested, a set up sponsored by a pressure group.

"We just wanted a relaxing weekend away - something thousands of other couples in Britain do every weekend," Mr Preddy said.

"Because we wanted to bring our new dog we checked he would be welcome. It didn't even cross our minds that in 2008 in Britain we needed to ask if we would be."

And I've just read ^ that..............

[joeluke]

They're lying

[Mick-Talbot]

and i have just read this

http://www.pinknews.c...i-gay-hate-preachers/

wich relates to my answer on the other thread, I would love to see a muslim hotel taken on.

[jackthehat]

Well, the courts certainly believed them, didn't they ?

[askyourgran]

I think the problem is that most people, generally the older generation, view homosexuals only in the light of their sexual behaviour. First and foremost they are just people like everyone else. No-one really looks or cares if two hetero people who are in love, sign in at at an hotel as Mr & Mrs Smith nowadays.
At first it must be shocking for a gay young man (or woman), to find out that they feel happier with someone of same sex. I imagine most families feel shame. I think that there are people who never come to terms with their sexuality and marry a woman in a bid to have a conventional family life. It is groups like Stonewall, hysterical hissy fitting men who flout and flounce their way around proudly boasting of their 'difference' that I dislike intensly. These are the people who promote themselves and in my view the reason everyones distate; These are the people that set the Christian Hotel couple up. There are a lot of quiet, intelligent, good people who are disposed to same sex relationships who are tarred by the actions of groups like Stonewall.