Gay couple awarded damages

Cindy · #1 01-18-2011, 02:30 PM

I wonder if any of the other unmarried couples they refused to let stay there sued them? Can public places still put up signs that say we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone?

RandyWayne · #2 01-19-2011, 09:13 AM

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I wonder if any of the other unmarried couples they refused to let stay there sued them? Can public places still put up signs that say we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone?

I thought that exact same thing. I only side with the hotel owner if he refused rooms to everyone he would consider to be living in sin, such as an unmarried couples along with the gay ones. I am fairly sure he (the owner) was picking and choosing based on perceived degree of sinfullness.

Cindy · #3 01-19-2011, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I thought that exact same thing. I only side with the hotel owner if he refused rooms to everyone he would consider to be living in sin, such as an unmarried couples along with the gay ones. I am fairly sure he (the owner) was picking and choosing based on perceived degree of sinfullness.

It said in the article that they in fact did refuse unmarried couples that were heterosexual.

whoami · #4 01-19-2011, 09:18 AM

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I thought that exact same thing. I only side with the hotel owner if he refused rooms to everyone he would consider to be living in sin, such as an unmarried couples along with the gay ones. I am fairly sure he (the owner) was picking and choosing based on perceived degree of sinfullness.

Even if he refused other unmarried couples, it still seems like discrimination to me. I mean, what if he was one of the types of Christians that doesn't believe in interracial marriages and refused to rent rooms to intterracial married couples because according to his beliefs their marriage isn't valid? That would certainly never fly, and rightly so. That looks like the same thing to me as refusing to rent to a gay couple who has a civil partnership contract.

King's Child · #5 01-19-2011, 09:33 AM

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Even if he refused other unmarried couples, it still seems like discrimination to me. I mean, what if he was one of the types of Christians that doesn't believe in interracial marriages and refused to rent rooms to intterracial married couples because according to his beliefs their marriage isn't valid? That would certainly never fly, and rightly so. That looks like the same thing to me as refusing to rent to a gay couple who has a civil partnership contract.

I understand where you are coming from but what about the hotel owner's rights. Do they have any rights? It is their motel so don't they have the right to refuse a room to someone.

whoami · #6 01-19-2011, 09:37 AM

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I understand where you are coming from but what about the hotel owner's rights. Do they have any rights? It is their motel so don't they have the right to refuse a room to someone.

It depends on what the laws are where they are, so I don't know. I'm not sure if they have the right to refuse service to anyone or not if that refusal is classified as discrimination...

aegsm76 · #7 01-19-2011, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by whoami

Even if he refused other unmarried couples, it still seems like discrimination to me. I mean, what if he was one of the types of Christians that doesn't believe in interracial marriages and refused to rent rooms to intterracial married couples because according to his beliefs their marriage isn't valid? That would certainly never fly, and rightly so. That looks like the same thing to me as refusing to rent to a gay couple who has a civil partnership contract.

I respectfully disagree. I think some of you have bought into the argument that the "gay rights" struggle is equivalent to the civil rights struggle.
It is not.
This occured in England. It is also the law in England that a 16 year old can have a relationship with anyone they please. So, you have 16 year old girls living with 50 year old guys, legally.
That is where we are headed.

whoami · #8 01-19-2011, 11:08 AM

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I respectfully disagree. I think some of you have bought into the argument that the "gay rights" struggle is equivalent to the civil rights struggle.
It is not.
This occured in England. It is also the law in England that a 16 year old can have a relationship with anyone they please. So, you have 16 year old girls living with 50 year old guys, legally.
That is where we are headed.

I don't personally think that the gay rights struggle is the same as the civil rights struggle, but I do think that the comparison I made in this particular instance is valid. I realized when I posted that it was in England, that's why I said to King's Child that I don't know if the laws there allow for the right to refuse service to anyone.

I think there are some states in America where 16 is the legal age of consent, so there could very well be 16yo's living with 50yo dudes here too, legally...

SOUNWORTHY · #9 01-29-2011, 04:32 PM

[QUOTE=whoami;1015887]I don't personally think that the gay rights struggle is the same as the civil rights struggle, but I do think that the comparison I made in this particular instance is valid. I realized when I posted that it was in England, that's why I said to King's Child that I don't know if the laws there allow for the right to refuse service to anyone.

I think there are some states in America where 16 is the legal age of consent, so there could very well be 16yo's living with 50yo dudes here too, legally...[/QUOTE]

Legal age of consent in Hawaii and Idaho is 14.