Thursday 18 October 2012

When Privilege Is Not Right

That same-sex couple which was refused a double bed (the prior booking and the deposit entitled it to a room sleeping two, not to any particular bedding arrangement), it was not a civil partnership.

Any pair of men, or of women, now has more rights than an unmarried opposite-sex couple, such as the householder would also have refused to give a double bed.

That is not equality.

That is unjust privilege.

2 comments:

  1. Not so. There was no evidence that she would have treated them differently had they been in a civil partnership.

    In any case, its really quite simple. if you don't want to provide a service to the public, don't run a business which is there to do so.

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  2. That was her case, that she would have denied an unmarried same-sex couple a double bed, too.

    They did not argue that they were a civil partnership with all the legal rights of a married couple, because they weren't.

    Yet they still won.

    Very disturbing. Very, very, very disturbing, indeed.

    And a B&B is not a shop. It is someone's private home.

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