<p>Court awards pensatn of £1,800 each to gay uple refed a double room at Chymorvah private hotel</p>
Contents:
- GAY UPLE WS DISCRIMATN SE AGAST CHRISTIAN HOTELIERS
- GAY UPLE SAY LUXURY HOTEL REFED TO NSIR HOSTG THEIR WEDDG
- GAY UPLE'S HOTEL BATTLE IS LATT SE OF RELIGN CLASHG WH HUMAN RIGHTS
- CHRISTIAN HOTEL OWNERS WHO BARRED GAY UPLE MAY CLOSE BS
- HOTEL OWNERS BARRED GAY UPLE ON RELIG GROUNDS, URT TOLD
GAY UPLE WS DISCRIMATN SE AGAST CHRISTIAN HOTELIERS
Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy reflect on each wng £1, 800 pensatn at Bristol unty urt after beg refed a double room by the Christian owners of Chymorvah hotel Cornwall Prs AssociatnDevout Christian hotel owners who refed to allow a gay uple to share a double room acted unlawfully, a judge at Bristol unty urt led Hall and Steven Preddy, who are civil partners, won their landmark claim for discrimatn a se fund and supported by the Equaly and Human Rights Commissn (EHRC) lg, one of the first ma unr the Equaly Act (Sexual Orientatn) Regulatns 2007, is likely to provi those partnerships wh greater protectn om owners of the Chymorvah private hotel Cornwall, Peter and Hazel Bull, do not allow upl who are not married to share double rooms bee they do not believe sex before Bulls asserted that their refal to acmodate civil partners a double room was not to do wh sexual orientatn but "everythg to do wh sex".
GAY UPLE SAY LUXURY HOTEL REFED TO NSIR HOSTG THEIR WEDDG
The rtrictn, the owners said, applied equally to heterosexual upl who are not his lg, Judge Andrew Rutherford said the hotel had directly discrimated agast the uple on the grounds of their sexual orientatn and award them pensatn of £1, 800 judge said the right of the fendants to manift their relign is not absolute and "n be limed to protect the rights and eedoms of the claimants" scribed the sexual orientatn regulatns as a "necsary and proportnate terventn by the state to protect the rights of others" Wadham, the legal director of the EHRC, said: "The right of an dividual to practise their relign and live out their beliefs is one of the most fundamental rights a person n have, but so is the right not to be turned away by a hotel jt bee you are gay. A gay uple are nsirg takg legal actn after a luxury hotel on Loch Lomond allegedly refed to nsir hostg their weddg bee of their sexual and Stephen Devaney, om Bailliton Glasgow, said the owner of the Loch Lomond Wateront, Suzanne Cottam, “hered out” after they said they were lookg for a weddg cled requts for an terview but the hotel released a statement firmly nyg the Devaneys’ allegatns, scribg them as false and “serly famatory” claims that had led to a surge abive lls to the the latt row about alleged homophobia the hotel tra, John Devaney told the Daily Rerd: “She uldn’t hi her disgt.
GAY UPLE'S HOTEL BATTLE IS LATT SE OF RELIGN CLASHG WH HUMAN RIGHTS
She told me: ‘We n’t allow people like you here, ’ and said gay marriage was agast her beliefs.
“I told her she was entled to her beliefs but gay marriage was now legal. He add that they were tendg to get married unr Stland’s new gay marriage legislatn five-star venue on the eastern shore of the loch, which specialis self-terg chalets and bs, boasts that is one of the area’s most sought-after weddg webse stat: “Loch Lomond Wateront is a betiful and ptivatg settg for upl lookg for a tly unique weddg venue.
CHRISTIAN HOTEL OWNERS WHO BARRED GAY UPLE MAY CLOSE BS
”The Devaneys have not rpond to further terview requts, but gay rights groups said that if the uple’s allegatns were upheld urt, the hotel uld be found breach of anti-discrimatn Macfarlane, the director of Stonewall Stland, said: “If proven, this alleged cint would be a blatant and hurtful act of discrimatn.
HOTEL OWNERS BARRED GAY UPLE ON RELIG GROUNDS, URT TOLD
However, the damage uld already be done for the rort if lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, their iends and their fai felt that their ctom is not wele.