Sexual orientation discrimination: Christian hotel owners directly discriminated against civil partners in refusing them double room

Sexual orientation discrimination: Christian B&B owners' refusal of double-bedded room for civil partners not justified

Date:

2 December 2013

The Supreme Court has held that the owners of a bed and breakfast, whose religious beliefs include that sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage are sinful, could not justify their refusal to give civil partners a room with a double bed, in this important discrimination case on the conflict between sexual orientation laws and the right to manifest religious beliefs.