Posted on 08/27/2013 5:42:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
A Christian couple who were sued after refusing to allow a gay couple to stay in a room at their seaside guesthouse will be legally allowed to turn away unmarried couples after becoming an non-profit organisation.
Peter and Hazelmary Bull found themselves at the centre of an international furore after telling civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy that they could not share a room at the Chymorvah Hotel in Marazion, Cornwall, on account of their religious beliefs.
Fined: B&B owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull.
Mr and Mrs Bull were forced to pay £3,600 to the couple in a landmark case in 2011 after they were found to have discriminated against them on the grounds of sexual orientation under Equality Act regulations.
The couple insisted that their policy of not allowing unmarried couples to share a bed extended to heterosexual couples as well as homosexual pairs.
But the courts disagreed.
The hotel is now to be turned into a respite care centre for Christians and anyone staying under their roof will now have to abide by the Bull's rules as long as they are set out in the company's articles.
Mrs Bull, 69, said the incident had changed their lives.
She said: 'We have been through the mill since 2008. It has stepped up since the trial.
'I am not homophobic. I have no problem with them \as people It is just that all the way through we have always said no unmarried couples; it just happens that homosexuals fit into that category ... Can’t somebody work out a formula that keeps them happy and us?'
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Now they hope they can run their home according to their own best ethical principles if they re-open it as a Christian nonprofit.
Not sure if that would work in the U.S. Anybody know?
God vindicate them, bless them, profit the work of their hands, and give them peace.
Oh, looking for a "win-win"? But the Left doesn't play that way. The only acceptable outcome is that the Left wins 100% and everyone else lose 100%. They call it "fairness".
The Socialist monsters on the Left want every business to become a non-profit organization.
My brother-in-law says that the government tells them what tiny percentage they are allowed to make as profit because they do some of their business with the government.
...I thought the Soviet Union dissolved several years ago on a different continent.
Don’t they have to have a Board of Directors, and can’t the Directors determine the level of salary they are paid?
No schtooping homos
The IRS would never give them non-profit status.
Conservatives are denied that status.
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