that you shouldn't open a hotel if you only want straight married couples to stay in it?

[JoanofArgos]

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/christian-couple-barred-gay-couple-shut-hotel

Horrid old bigots, say I.

LeninGrad, I remember reading a consumer advice column where two women had booked into a B&B in Norfolk in order to attend a linked astronomy evening as a special birthday treat activity weekend - and they were turned out because they were togther.

YANBU. horrid bigots. however i'd like to hope a gay hotel would be more open if a straight couple wanted to check in. i know a lot of gay businesses were concerned that they would no longer be able to exclude on the grounds of sexuality due to the same act this pair have fallen foul of.

This thread is one of the most unintentionally funny I have ever read, what with the images of them making emergency bee accommodation in their twin beds to breakfast time orgies and them gays being all loud and never shutting up about it (Lenin can you be a bit quieter, I have a bit of a headache?).
What has amused me most though is the thought that Dawn French's sister is a vicar :o

I'll come with me bees in their tiny cardboard boxes - how much per night and do I have to pay per bee?

Are they gay bees, Stealth?

Well one of them's a queen

You have to get really deep into the website to find that 'no double beds' note - why on earth do we assue that this couple deliberately booked in? One of them may have booked by phone.

I may (deliberatley) book for this for a great weekend

Angry bees in a cigar case make a great impromptu vibrator.

Please please please send that in to Pick Me Up - I dare you

I don't see the difference between not extending your welcome to homosexual people and not extending your welcome to children. Plenty of hotels will say "no children" as is their prerogative. I wonder how far you'd get booking into one and turning up with your kids.

I don't think the bus boycott argument works. It's not like gay people aren't allowed to stay in ANY hotel, just this one.

BuzzLightBeer - your posts have been making me laugh.

the wife and I have decided to put the spark back into our relationship by booking a weekend away in a homophobic B&B and do lesbo things over breakfast. Like wear DMs. or buy a cat. or move in together after a first date.

I always tell my hetero colleagues that when lesbians get together we have pillow fights in baby doll nighties. My boss gets a bit misty eyed!

I will always find it fascinating that those that purport to advocate "tolerance" of lifestyle choices are the very self-same people that abuse and insult those that don't sign up to their world-view.

It is symptomatic of the Left, of course - to play the man rather than the ball...or, if you will, to use ad hominem arguments instead of addressing the issue at hand.

I wasn't saying I agreed, just showing you where and what they said about their double beds.

They really are in the wrong line of work, aren't they?

Which bit, precisely, pascoe, is the issue at hand for you?

I wish they'd never invented civil partnerships. We should simply have marriages (any 2 non-related consenting adults). Would make things a lot clearer.

WilfSelf - if a Christian couple have a clearly-stated policy (derived from a moral code that informs their decision) regarding who to accommodate or who to turn away, I feel that should be respected or, at the very least, tolerated.

If their so doing harms their business - through loss of business or reputation, then so be it.

But for the Law of the Land to force them to accomodate in a way that runs contrary to their (not outlandish or extreme) beliefs is heavy-handed and excessive, in my view.

For them (and for their supporters) to be personally abused by those (preaching tolerance) that disagree with them is ironic and somewhat counter-intuitive.

no we should all be nice to the poor auld bigots, its not really their fault they are stuck in the 1950's and can't realise what a pathetic anachronism they really are.

Have now had to explain to DH what I'm reading after bursting out laughing at Stealth's 'One of them's a Queen' comment

"Like it or not, many people in this country may be offended by a pair of gay men openly kissing at the breakfast table."

There's so much wrong with this hideous statement I just don't know where to start.

MY SON IS GAY.

Just to join in with the shouting.

But what if they didn't want Muslim people at their hotel? Or black people? Or Irish people?

And personally I think that not wanting gay people to use your business is extreme. Not wanting unmarried straight couples is also extreme. And I come from a very Christian background.

So on that rationale, a business should be able to discriminate against any of its customers as long as it's in the name of religion? Nice.

What if someone opens a shop and decides they won't serve, oh, I dunno, unaccompanied women?

And which bits, pascoe, were the ad hominem attacks you thought out of order?