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HOTEL owners who refused to give a gay couple a room have been forced to pay them compensation.

Peter and Hazelmary Bull – owners of the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Cornwall, England - denied Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy a double room in September 2008.

Mr Hall and Mr Preddy were told the hotel has a long-standing policy of banning all unmarried couples both heterosexual and gay from sharing a bed in the hotel.

Christians Mr and Mrs Bull said the policy has been in operation since they bought the hotel in 1986, and is based on their beliefs about marriage and not hostility to sexual orientation.

Mr Preddy said he and Mr Hall had booked the hotel room over the phone and were not aware of the policy until they arrived and were told they would not be able to stay.


The hotel owners were ordered to pay them $2880 each in damages, with most of the costs going to the Equality and Human Rights Commission which funded the action.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel ... 5990959108

The Hen wrote:Bloody Cornish.

Serves them right.

I hope paying out money to bumming emmets stuck in their choughing craw!

The couple

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The owners

A Christian couple who did not let a gay couple have a double room in their hotel have appealed against a ruling that they acted unlawfully.

Peter and Hazelmary Bull refused to allow civil partners Steven Preddy and Martyn Hall, from Bristol, the room at Chymorvah House in Cornwall in 2008.

The Bulls, from Marazion, were ordered in January to pay £3,600 in damages.

At the Court of Appeal in London, the Bulls said that they were entitled to hold "outdated" religious beliefs.

Mr Hall and Mr Preddy claimed sexual orientation discrimination under the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007.

At Bristol County Court in January, Judge Andrew Rutherford said the Bulls acted unlawfully in turning away the couple in September 2008, and ordered them to pay £1,800 each to Mr Preddy and Mr Hall.

At the appeal, Mr Bull, 71, and Mrs Bull, 67, said they thought that any sex outside marriage was "a sin", but denied they had discriminated against the civil partners.

Mr Hall and Mr Preddy were not in court.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-15639005