{"id":16983,"date":"2012-07-21T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2012-07-21T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:00:30","slug":"christian-bb-owners-have-to-pay-homosexual-couple-4500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christian-bb-owners-have-to-pay-homosexual-couple-4500\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian B&B owners have to pay homosexual couple $4,500"},"content":{"rendered":"

The B.C. human rights kangaroo tribunal has ordered B&B owners, Les and Susan Molnar, to pay homosexuals Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie $4,500 to assuage the bruised dignity and self-respect they suffered when prevented from indulging in a night of urningtum hanky-panky in one of the Molnar\u2019s beds. Of course, nobody that has <\/em>any dignity or self-respect would whine to a human rights commission simply because they encountered a Christian couple who had the mettle to stand up for what they believed to be right.<\/p>\n

But this was not about \u201cdignity\u201d or \u201cself-respect\u201d: it was about compelling recalcitrant Christians to conform to the Zeitgeist \u2013 something that the Bible exhorts them not to do.<\/p>\n

One might argue that Christian business owners have to obey the law of the land \u2013 in this case to \u201ccease and desist the discriminatory conduct\u201d \u2013 or not have a business. And that is what has happened in this case: the B&B closed in 2009, an insufficient punishment it seems, hence the $4,500 damages claim.<\/p>\n

The question is: does anyone seriously think that we are making a better society for ourselves by driving Christians who will not grovel before the altar of the equality god<\/em> out of business?<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Christian owners of a bed and breakfast in British Columbia have been ordered to pay around $4,500 in damages after they refused to rent a room to a homosexual couple.<\/p>\n

Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie had reserved a room at the Riverbend B&B in Grand Forks in June 2009, but owners Les and Susan Molnar cancelled the reservation after realizing they were homosexual.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo allow a gay couple to share a bed in my Christian home would violate my Christian beliefs and would cause me and my wife great distress,\u201d Lee explained in tribunal documents.<\/p>\n

Thomas and Eadie filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, which ruled in their favour on Tuesday. Tribunal member Enid Marion ordered<\/a> the Molnars to \u201ccease and desist the discriminatory conduct,\u201d though they closed the B&B down in September 2009 as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n

Marion agreed with the two men that the Molnars violated section 8 of the B.C. Human Rights Code, which states that it is a discriminatory practice to \u201cdeny to a person or class of persons any accommodation\u201d because of \u201csexual orientation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The B.C. human rights kangaroo tribunal has ordered B&B owners, Les and Susan Molnar, to pay homosexuals Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie $4,500 to assuage the bruised dignity and self-respect they suffered when prevented from indulging in a night of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[531,2167,1003],"class_list":["post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexualist-crusade","tag-brian-thomas-and-shaun-eadie","tag-homosexuality","tag-les-and-susan-molnar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}