Shadow home secretary comment...

[R1Geezer]

Wel should B&B / Hotels have the choice not to have gays stay?

[Kromovaracun]

<If we spell out the real truth that B&B did not want those homos performing in their bed and neither would most people. The law is an ass in forcing people to condone it>

It is NOT forcing anyone to 'condone' anal sex. It's asking you to tolerate people who are gay/bisexual - which is a very different thing (if you say you 'tolerate' someone, that doesn't mean you necessarily like them, does it?) B&Bs can't function in they way they used to - they're businesses and you can no longer just turn people away because you've got some kind of obsessive paranoia about them having sex.

Should we really base our laws on this childish mentality that thinks 'BUM SEX' whenever anyone says 'gay'? As opposed to the pragmatic idea that everyone should put up just a little bit with other members of society?

I'm going to copy-paste something I wrote on the other thread, because I think it applies here (and because I can't be bothered to write it again):

"That's not some kind of air-headed ideological imposition - it's just realism. It's the only way a diverse and pluralistic society can possibly work in the modern world - everyone grudges a little compromise to receive it in kind. I can't throw a brick at certain members of my Union, and this woman can't discriminate against sections of the population whenever she likes. "

[danchip]

there has been many a time when myself and a group of lads have been going away for a weekend i've shared a room/double bed with one of my male friends,

would they object to this even though we were both hetrosexual and happily married

[ummmm]

That was the point I was trying to make a few pages ago Dan. We shared a room that had one double and three singles....what an orgy eh?

[rov1200]

Did you hold hands danchip? Thats what that latest B&B male couple were doing.

[jackthehat]

Holding hands !!
No wonder you were revolted, rov..............I bet the horses in the street were terrified !

[robbo966]

One up the bum no harm done !

However I'm not gay, but I can't see the problem.

[rov1200]

Coming onto this site is just like going into a gay bar. Its hard to spot any normal manhood.

[jackthehat]

Find it unsettling do you ?

Perhaps it's you out of step with the rest of the world rather than vice versa..........

[naomi24]

Imaginations here seem to have smothered the original question. What people do in the bedroom is their business, and if it affects no one else, why would anyone be interested?

jno, you've misrepresented the conversation about the shop assistant somewhat, but never mind. Just thought I'd mention it.

[Avatar]

" What people do in " THEIR OWN " bedroom is their business" perhaps, but they are paying *guests* in someone else's room in this case.
Having said that I believe it is still illegal for a heterosexual man to take his legally wedded wife up the council gritter of a saturday evening.

[naomi24]

Avatar, they are not invited as personal guests of the proprietor - they are members of the paying public who are breaking no laws.

[Avatar]

They are invited as paying guests.

[naomi24]

Of course they aren't invited. Like any other business, a hotel is selling a service - that's all.