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Title: U.K. Supreme Court Rules Against Christian Hotel Owners Who Turned Away Gay Coup
Post by: DriftingCrow on November 28, 2013, 11:40:45 PM
U.K. Supreme Court Rules Against Christian Hotel Owners Who Turned Away Gay Couple
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/uk-supreme-court-rules-against-christian-hotel-owners-who-tu
Author: J. Lester Feder Source: BuzzFeed

The United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against the owners of a Cornwall guest house who denied a room to a same-sex couple in 2008 citing their Christian faith.

[The Court wrote] "We do not normally allow people to behave in a way which the law prohibits because they disagree with the law. But to allow discrimination against persons of homosexual orientation (or indeed of heterosexual orientation) because of a belief, however sincerely held, and however
based on the biblical text, would be to do just that."