Posted on 07/19/2011 10:50:42 PM PDT by Cronos
A lesbian couple is suing a Vermont inn, claiming it refused to host their fall wedding reception because of their sexual orientation.
Kate Baker and Ming Linsley filed the suit on Tuesday in Vermont Superior Court, accusing the Wildflower Inn of Lyndonville of abruptly turning them away after learning they are lesbians.
They claim the inn violated Vermont’s Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act, which prohibits inns, hotels, motels and other establishments with five or more rooms from turning away patrons based on sexual orientation. The law makes an exemption for religious organizations.
..“I think this case could set an important precedent not only for Vermont but for other states with marriage equality,” Professor Johnson said,
...The current lawsuit alleges that in October Ms. Linsley’s mother, Channie Peters, spoke with the events coordinator at the inn, which has 24 rooms and is on 570 acres in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, according to its Web site.
Ms. Peters said the coordinator referred to a bride and a groom while discussing the bridal suite; Ms. Peters said she corrected the woman and they continued their conversation.
Shortly after the conversation, Ms. Peters received an e-mail with the subject line “bad news,” according to the lawsuit, and was told the innkeepers did not allow same-sex wedding receptions at the site.
“After our conversation,” the e-mail reads, according to the lawsuit, “I checked with my innkeepers and unfortunately due to their personal feelings, they do not host gay receptions at our facility.”
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Thanks a lot you damn dykes for being the drama queers that you are.
Those laws should be unconstitutional . . they violate freedom of association and religion
Once the deviants get a taste of special treatment, all bets are off..........
This would have to get the U.S. Supreme Court for this hotel to have a chance. The Vermont Supreme Court is what started this nonsense to begin with. I remember that ruling that found it was okay for a person to have a license plate that said “IRISH” actually only made it by one vote on that court.
Anyway - you can’t have a wedding without a bride and a groom - no marriage without a husband and a wife - and so two people of the same sex can’t fulfill that requirement. It’s not discrimination, bigotry, etc. - it’s just reality.
What a Queer Law...
I didn’t see a comments option on this story. Wonder why.
The plaintiffs will win the case.
Scary!
Maybe management believed that they would spend less in court than they would lose in business.
Not to mention cleanup costs.
Burn in hell ladies. You stinking fags have pushed me to where I want your fat asses back in the closet stigmatized. Screw you. You broke me.
I always knew homosexuality was wrong but as long as you shut up about it, I felt you deserved more or less equal treatment to everybody else.
No more. I want your asses DEEPLY discriminated against from now on. I want fags to live in fear of being fired, not rented to, losing loans, losing their chilren - the works.
You broke me with one demand after another. I knew if we gave you an inch you would take a mile. You fags will not rest until you have PREFERENCE in adopting children, and PREFERENCE and FORCED ACCEPTANCE with all things queer.
Up yours faggots. You pushed too far. You should have STFU at 80%. Now you’ve pushed me too far. Screw you. I oppose you with every ounce of my might. I will vote you back into the closet and back into shame.
You pushed too long and too hard and now I hate all of you faggots. Deal with it.
Can you imagine, during the reception, “Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl!”
Although I suppose as a Lesbian couple they could borrow flannel shirts and hairstyles from the brothers!
What do you bet they shopped around and waited for some establishment to deny them JUST so they could sue them and scare every other business into dealing with them?
Why would you want to have a reception at a place that clearly doesn’t want you? You want to force them to take your money? That’s what I don’t get. But then there’d probably be the “discrimination discount” — no I’m only paying $40 a person or we’re going back to court!
Guilty.
yes, I was looking to flame it but strangely no option....
There are probably plenty of places that say ok to a les wedding party, but NOOOOOh, they had to have it in the one place where people have morals....
What a couple of dyke-whiners.
they, with the gay brigade footing the bill, will try to break this hotel.
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