Posted on 04/15/2013 9:59:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Judge Rules In Favor of Lesbians Suing Hawaii B&B By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
HONOLULU (AP) — A judge has ruled a Hawaii bed and breakfast violated the law when two women were denied a room because they're gay.
The Hawaii First Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of a Southern California couple who sued Aloha Bed & Breakfast for discrimination in 2011, Lambda Legal announced Monday. In 2007, Diane Cervelli and Taeko Bufford tried to book a room at the bed and breakfast because it's in Hawaii Kai, the same east Honolulu neighborhood where the friend they were visiting lived.
When Cervelli specified they would need one bed, the owner asked if they were lesbians. Cervelli responded truthfully and the owner said she was uncomfortable having lesbians in her house because of her religious views, the lawsuit said.
The bed and breakfast violated the state public accommodations law and is ordered to stop discriminating against same-sex couples, according to the ruling dated April 11. The public accommodations law prohibits establishments that provide lodging to transient guests from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, race, color, ancestry, religion, disability and sex —including gender identity or expression. Jim Hochberg, a Honolulu attorney representing the bed and breakfast's owner said Monday the ruling doesn't consider her First Amendment rights. "The public needs to be aware of this decision because it has far-reaching consequences," he said.
The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission joined the lawsuit.
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They got lei’d.
Many small bed-and-breakfasts are just a spare room in someone’s house. I hope they fight this. You shouldn’t have to accommodate behvior in your own house that you don’t approve of.
It’s so sad that happy marriages are outlawed in so many places.
Here is another example of the govt forcing the citizens to support and service homosexuality.
You’re right.
Ah, for the good old days when businesses posted signs that said “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
But the government wants them to post signs that say “We didn’t build this.”
That’s odd, there are no legal bed and breakfasts in Hawaii Kai.
You can’t legally rent less than 30 days there.
“Many small bed-and-breakfasts are just a spare room in someone’s house.”
And maybe that “someone” is also trying to bring up children in that house - trying to teach them right from wrong, moral from immoral, etc.
Oh so true ... but that’s not the point. (Or at least not my point.) I believe that a landlord can’t refuse to rent on the basis of color, etc., but if someone is advertising for a roommate, they can’t be forced to accept someone they don’t want, even if their reason is racist, because it’s their personal living situation. I should think a dinky little b&b, where the host lives intimately under the same roof with the guests, would be analogous.
In a society of people with different social beliefs/desires there will be conflicts of desire. When the desires of one group of persons want to have the advantage for their desires they will seek help from any source, including profane legislators and I will say crooked/immoral judges. The base of the Nation’s founding has no meaning/relevance for these people. Some would call it social progress. I say it is social and legal decadence.
Its really time to do something about this crap from activist judges.
Totally agree with you.
Noting that gay relationships are not a constitutionally enumerated protection, Section 1 of 14A prohibits state laws which abridge true constitutionally protected rights, the 1A protected right of religious expression in this case.
And for liberals who argue that the Equal Protections Clause of Section 1 of 14A protects gays from being refused services such as B&B, note that Section 2 of 14A discriminates on the basis of sex, age and citizeship regardless of the Equal Protections Clause. So states can make laws which discriminate on bases not expressly protected by the Constitution, as long as the states discriminate equally on such bases.
Hawaii is the closest thing we have to Cuba. The place is run by Marxist Japanese, and old doped out hippies like their current governor.
Hawaii is the closest thing we have to Cuba. The place is run by Marxist Japanese, and old doped out hippies like their current governor.
If you advertise for a roommate and you have the prospective roommate sign a lease, you could get into some deep do do if you refused to sign the lease with a person based on race, ethnicity or a protected class.
If there is no lease or no contract, you most likely could not be hit with a discrimination claim.
And I think the B&B might have customers sign a contract as do most hotels.
"When Cervelli specified they would need one bed, the owner asked if they were lesbians. Cervelli responded truthfully and the owner said she was uncomfortable having lesbians in her house because of her religious views, the lawsuit said."
The owner was just begging for a lawsuit when they brought this up.
In this day and age gay trumps everything.
Now if the owner asked if they were smokers and refused to rent to them, the liberal judge would have thrown the case out.
You could theoretically have “gay marriage” and religion. At its root marriage has nothing to do with religion.
That being said, you can’t have gay “marriage” because marriage is a breeding contract and gays can’t breed.
Think of it in terms of Romeo and Juliet.
If it’s Romeo and John, it wouldn’t have survived time because all of the conflict of the play disappears. The play is literally meaningless. The two families have no reason to care about their two black sheep weirdos.
The problem with Romeo and Juliet is the children they’re going to have. Then, these two families that hate each other, are genetically tied into becoming one big family with huge internal conflict.
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