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Christian hotel owners penalised for turning away gays

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  • #52
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Publicising a potentially illegal policy does not make it ok.

    Quite right. Merely pointing out that it wasn't something they came up with on the day as an excuse to turn away a same-sex couple because they were same-sex.


  • #53
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    christians have no right to hold non-christians to Christian standards. It is not our business to tell two consenting adults what they can and cannot do. The second they opened a B&B to the public they lost the right to dictate what was and wasn't acceptable in their house (within the law). I'm sorry, but that's the long and the short of it in my opinion...


  • #54
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Seaneh wrote: »
    christians have no right to hold non-christians to Christian standards. It is not our business to tell two consenting adults what they can and cannot do. The second they opened a B&B to the public they lost the right to dictate what was and wasn't acceptable in their house (within the law). I'm sorry, but that's the long and the short of it in my opinion...

    Well said. I see this case as being answered in two ways:

    1) The Christian response, which I think happens to be summarised nicely above. If somebody isn't interested in my Christian morality then I don't see why they should have to adhere to it.

    2) The civil response. This is the part I can't figure out because I don't know for sure that legislating in the name of tolerance isn't itself a form of intolerance. For example, I look at Frances decision to ban the veil as intolerance in the name of tolerance.


  • #55
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    gbee wrote: »
    an atheist with Buddhism and Scientology leanings.

    I'd urge you to stay far, far, far away from the last part of that sentence...
    I'd love to talk to you and explain exactly why. Be very, very, very careful.


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