That same-sex couple which was refused a double bed (the prior booking and the deposit entitled it to a room sleeping two, not to any particular bedding arrangement), it was not a civil partnership.
Any pair of men, or of women, now has more rights than an unmarried opposite-sex couple, such as the householder would also have refused to give a double bed.
That is not equality.
That is unjust privilege.
Not so. There was no evidence that she would have treated them differently had they been in a civil partnership.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, its really quite simple. if you don't want to provide a service to the public, don't run a business which is there to do so.
That was her case, that she would have denied an unmarried same-sex couple a double bed, too.
ReplyDeleteThey did not argue that they were a civil partnership with all the legal rights of a married couple, because they weren't.
Yet they still won.
Very disturbing. Very, very, very disturbing, indeed.
And a B&B is not a shop. It is someone's private home.