I just saw on the news that the owners of a b&b who refused to let a gay couple stay in the same ‘double’ bed have been fined under an equality law.
Now, I don’t normally have much of an opinion about gays and blah, but in this case, I do. It is b&b’s owners’ home – not a hotel chain – and as they also pointed out, it is up to them who they allow to stay, and in this case, as they have children, they felt that for two men to share a ‘double bed’ was against their christian beliefs. I’m sorry, but I agree with them – the couple could have gone elsewhere or had twin beds or different rooms. The £3,500 they now have to cough up in compensation is probably a year’s worth of profit. They are thinking of appealing – I think they should.
I am not a homophobic in the slightest either!