Did anyone else hear the 'shocking' comments of Mr Grayling and think..."Yeah...that is about right" ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8602371.stm?ls
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8602371.stm?ls
It's the fact that it is someone's home that I have a certain amount of sympathy with. I know the law etc etc and I understand we don't want to breed homophobia."I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.
"If they are running a hotel on the High Street, I really don't think that it is right in this day and age that a gay couple should walk into a hotel and be turned away because they are a gay couple, and I think that is where the dividing line comes."
I wonder if there would have been as much made of this if the B&B owners had been gay and they turned away a heterosexual couple? What I mean is, if that was me and my wife being rejected from a B&B I wouldn't go to the newspapers complaining about it!In March, Cambridgeshire gay couple Michael Black and John Morgan were turned away from a guest house in Berkshire because the owner said it was against her policy to accommodate same sex couples.
Surely you meant 'naivety' ?Maybe a reflection of the nativity, or perhaps trying to imagine what jesus would have done would help them
My reference was to Mary being turned away from hotels for the birth of their "saviour".Surely you meant 'naivety' ?Maybe a reflection of the nativity, or perhaps trying to imagine what jesus would have done would help them
Why should landlords have to put up with homosexual customers commiting "un-natural acts" in the bedrooms of their property.
So you'd advocate a sign outside a b&b saying "No Vacancies for Blacks, Asians, Chinks, Mincers, Scots, Irish, Welsh, Atheists, Non Catholics, Plasterers, nor anyone from Nuneaton. All others welcome"No chance Dexty. Landlords should be able to decide for themselves on this issue,, not have it imposed on them by "law". Sorry mate,,, my opinion.
So you'd advocate a sign outside a b&b saying "No Vacancies for Blacks, Asians, Chinks, Mincers, Scots, Irish, Welsh, Atheists, Non Catholics, Plasterers, nor anyone from Nuneaton. All others welcome"No chance Dexty. Landlords should be able to decide for themselves on this issue,, not have it imposed on them by "law". Sorry mate,,, my opinion.
So all that talk over the last couple of days about the need to follow the laws of the land etc etc was just posturing then?