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Gay couple in B&B
I see that the gay couple who were refused a double room in a B&B have won their case and been awarded £1800 damages. I'm not sure of the background facts, so can't really comment, but the hoteliers were found to have acted unlawfully. Does anyone know which law they actually broke and what the damaged were in respect of?
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''You can't turn away people from a hotel because they're black or Jewish and in 2011 you shouldn't be able to demean them by turning them away because they're gay either," Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill said.
Being black or Jewish is not immoral though
''You can't turn away people from a hotel because they're black or Jewish and in 2011 you shouldn't be able to demean them by turning them away because they're gay either," Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill said.
Being black or Jewish is not immoral though
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I wonder if the B&B owners would also refuse entry to people with tattoos, people wearing pearls or gold jewellery, men without testicles, people who eat snails, divorcees, people who wear blended fabrics, fortune tellers, people with Beatles haircuts, menstruating women, people who practise coitus interruptus. All are outlawed in the Bible. I'm guessing the owners couldn't care less about any of those; because, like so many intolerants, they are very selective about which bits of the Bible they've chosen to abide by, in order to self-justify their bigotry.