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Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
18th October 2012, 16:15
A gay couple who were turned away from a bed and breakfast were discriminated against, it has been ruled.
Michael Black, 64, and John Morgan, 59, booked a double room at the Swiss Bed and Breakfast in Berkshire via email.
When they arrived in March 2010, owner Susanne Wilkinson would not let them stay in a room with a double bed.
The couple, from Brampton near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire were awarded £1,800 each at Reading County Court for "injury to feelings".
Recorder Claire Moulder said that by refusing the couple access to a double room, Mrs Wilkinson had "treated them less favourably than she would treat unmarried heterosexual couples in the same circumstances".
It comes as a similar case in Cornwall awaits a Supreme Court hearing.

(More on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19991266)

Questionable
18th October 2012, 16:19
Clicked on the article to read quotes from anti-gay bigots going "HELP! HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!"

Was not disappointed.

Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
18th October 2012, 16:35
Clicked on the article to read quotes from anti-gay bigots going "HELP! HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!"

Was not disappointed.

Yep. I was not surprised to read the words 'European Court of Human Rights', though I was disappointed.
They may have a point of course, I mean, how dare the law infringe on their right to hold a bigotted point of view! Why should they be prevented from actively discriminating against people who just wanted to pay them for a room in their B & B and be treated like any other couple?