{"id":3379,"date":"2009-03-21T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2009-03-21T22:22:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T03:22:45","slug":"gay-couple-sue-christian-hotel-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/gay-couple-sue-christian-hotel-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay couple sue Christian hotel owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gay couple sue Christians for barring them from hotel bed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Christian owners of a seaside hotel may be prosecuted after refusing to allow a gay couple to stay in a double room.<\/p>\n

Peter and Hazelmary Bull are facing an unprecedented court case under controversial new equality laws.<\/p>\n

Martyn Hall, who lives with his civil partner Steven Preddy, has lodged a county court claim for up to \u00a35,000 in damages alleging ‘direct discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation’.<\/p>\n

Last August, the Bulls received a letter from Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, saying it had received a complaint and warning the hotel it was breaking the law.<\/p>\n

The following month Mr Preddy, from Bristol, rang to book a double room for two nights.<\/p>\n

Mrs Bull, who took the call, said last night that she had wrongly assumed that he would be staying with his wife before she accepted the booking.<\/p>\n

When Mr Preddy and Mr Hall arrived, they were told by the manager, Bernie Quinn, that the hotel could not honour the booking.<\/p>\n

The couple told him he was acting illegally before leaving and reporting the incident to police<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Chymorvah Hotel<\/a> lists its rules<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here at Chymorvah we have few rules, but please note that as Christians we have a deep regard for marriage (being the union of one man to one woman for life to the exclusion of all others).<\/p>\n

Therefore, although we extend to all a warm welcome to our home, our double bedded accommodation is not available to unmarried couples – Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s obvious Messrs Hall and Preddy knew about the hotel rules before making the booking. In which case, they were not really looking for a seaside holiday at all, but were out to make a point by deliberately searching for accommodation where they knew they could challenge Christian principle with vacuous 21st Century secular equality. It is significant that no unmarried heterosexual couple has felt the need to sue the hotel –\u00a0 probably because there are plenty of other hotels<\/a> in the area. Not to mention the fact that heterosexual unmarried couples do not feel the need to engage in a crusade to establish the normality of their behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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