Gay partners in UK win lawsuit against hotel owners’ religious discrimination
”The judge has confirmed what we already know – that in these circumstances our civil partnership has the same status in law as a marriage between a man and a woman, and that, regardless of each person’s religious beliefs, no one is above the law.”
Steven Preddy remarking on a lawsuit that he and his legal civil partner, Martin Hall, had brought against the Christian owners of the small Chymorvah Private Hotel, Peter and Hazelmary Bull. The owners claimed that their refusal to allow the gay couple to share a room would have applied equally to unmarried heterosexuals, too. But Ms. Bull was also quoted as making remarks about sin and asking ”Why should the rights of gay peple take precedence over ours?” (Mail.co.uk)
Civil partnerships are, for all intents and purposes, legally equal to heterosexual marriages in the United Kingdom.
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