(English) Hotel broke law in gay couple snub

[Turborama]

Source: Press Assosciation

(UKPA) – 9 minutes ago

Christian hotel owners who refused a gay couple a double room acted unlawfully, a judge has ruled.

Peter and Hazelmary Bull were breaking the law when they denied Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy a room at their hotel in Cornwall in September 2008.

Judge Andrew Rutherford made the ruling in a written judgment at Bristol County Court as he awarded the couple £1,800 each in damages.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h-hNHGRnYPOYWvf-lm65nu8q7uig?docId=N0215851295345448354A

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Gay Couple Win B&B Discrimination Case

Sarah Gordon, Sky News Online

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Mr Preddy booked a room at the B&B in 2008 and Mrs Bull assumed he was bringing his wife with him. When he arrived with his civil partner Mr Hall, the pair were refused a double room by the manager Bernie Quinn, who instead offered them seperate single rooms.

The Preddys used the 2007 Equality Act Regulations to bring the case to court, claiming £5,000 in damages.

A month before Mr Preddy booked to stay at the B&B, Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, had warned the Bulls that a notice on their website about who could and could not stay was illegal.

The notice read: "We have few rules but please note that out of a deep regard for marriage we prefer to let double accommodation to heterosexual married couples only."

More, including video of the Preddy's press conference after the ruling: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Gay-Couple-Win-BB-Discrimination-Case-Against-Christian-Owners-Damages-Of-1800-Each/Article/201101315897770?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15897770_Gay_Couple_Win_BB_Discrimination_Case_Against_Christian_Owners,_Damages_Of_%3F1,800_Each


The Preddys


The hotel owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull

[Heidi]

1. Good. Recommended.

:kick:

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[Skittles]

3. .....

you can bet this sanctimonious BULL couple never ensured their favored HETERO couples were actually married, to each other :thumbsdown:

[tomm2thumbs]

4. they STILL have the 'no unmarried couples welcome' on their website

"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). Therefore, although we extend to all a warm welcome to our home, our double bedded accommodation is not available to unmarried couples – Thank you."

Link: http://www.chymorvah.co.uk/bookingform.html

interesting, given rooms called 'Pydar', 'Lesnewth' and 'Stratton' not to mention 'Trigge'

It's really hard to believe anything immoral happens there anyway... I mean, you'd probably knock over the tea set if you tried anything funny.