....if I was a greengrocer, butcher or whatever.
But.....I would not rent a room to them if I was a hotelier or B & B owner.
Why? Because I would not wish for homosexual acts to take place within my own home.
The Berkshire B & B owners who politely refused to allow two homosexuals to share a bedroom have now been fined £3500, as the judge said: "To make up for the hurt feelings" of the homosexual couple.
The homosexuals concerned, in a radio interview claimed that, to discriminate as the Berkshire couple did, was the same as racial prejudice or religious sectarianism.
Not so.
Discrimination against people because of their skin colour or faith is wrong, they do not commit any unnatural act or undertaken any course of unnatural action whereas, homosexuals do.
The answer, if you are in the accommodation business, is to look for a legitimate cause that complies with the law of the land.
I am minded of an occasion a few years ago when a jobsworth in grey suit approached local fishermen in a seaside village in Pembrokeshire and instructed them to call a halt to selling mackerel off their boats at the quayside as it was against EU legislation and would attract a heavy fine.
Pembrokeshire fisherfolk, ever resourceful, immediately began selling old newspapers at the quayside complete with free fish!
Perhaps Christian hoteliers should begin banning sodomites because they are wearing dirty shoes or shirts of a nasty colour.
But.....I would not rent a room to them if I was a hotelier or B & B owner.
Why? Because I would not wish for homosexual acts to take place within my own home.
The Berkshire B & B owners who politely refused to allow two homosexuals to share a bedroom have now been fined £3500, as the judge said: "To make up for the hurt feelings" of the homosexual couple.
The homosexuals concerned, in a radio interview claimed that, to discriminate as the Berkshire couple did, was the same as racial prejudice or religious sectarianism.
Not so.
Discrimination against people because of their skin colour or faith is wrong, they do not commit any unnatural act or undertaken any course of unnatural action whereas, homosexuals do.
The answer, if you are in the accommodation business, is to look for a legitimate cause that complies with the law of the land.
I am minded of an occasion a few years ago when a jobsworth in grey suit approached local fishermen in a seaside village in Pembrokeshire and instructed them to call a halt to selling mackerel off their boats at the quayside as it was against EU legislation and would attract a heavy fine.
Pembrokeshire fisherfolk, ever resourceful, immediately began selling old newspapers at the quayside complete with free fish!
Perhaps Christian hoteliers should begin banning sodomites because they are wearing dirty shoes or shirts of a nasty colour.
My difficulty with this one is that I do not think it is the business of a hotelier to police the private behaviour of customers. On what basis was it determined that these individuals would be using the premises for unnatural acts? In the absence of clear evidence to the contrary should we not assume that our neighbour's intentions are at worst morally neutral?
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ReplyDeletePatricius, wot, like sharing a double bed? If two men professed to be serial killers would you carry on and give them Room number 5? They may spend the night without slaughtering anyone but, on the other hand.....
I think I would charge them the rate for two singles. As for professed serial killers...well I would simply laugh at them!
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ReplyDeleteIf the customers asked for a room with a double-bed, not much doubt there!
Perhaps. I may be old-fashioned- and possibly getting on a bit- but I think of a bed primarily as a place for sleeping.
DeleteDo you mean the second case where hurt feelings have been awarded £3600? Having made a booking online the men travelled all the way from Cambridge to spend one night at a Berkshire b&b. They were so upset they didn't book into another hotel but travelled all the way home the same evening.
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ReplyDeleteGenty, yes, you are right, thank you. I have amended the post. Patricius, old age comes to us all old chap.
From what Genty tells us above it seems pretty clear that these two creepy individuals were out to make mischief from the outset. In such circumstances it is advisable not to rise to the bait.
ReplyDeletePatricus-I don't think they were going there to play monopoly!
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Michael.
We have a moral duty to use our reason and responsibility, and not to facilitate or assist others in committing mortal sin. It is not just a right not to be compelled to do so, but a duty not to do so. We ought to be helping people NOT to sin. When we assist someone in sinning, we sin ourselves.
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