Peter and Rosemary Bull, the Christian couple fined in 2008 for not allowing sexual immorality in their bed and breakfast, have lost their appeal to the UK's Supreme Court. In a unanimous ruling, the court ruled the Bulls have no religious freedom to decline one of their bedrooms to the sodomite couple who filed a complaint against them.
After 25 years, the Bulls business has been ruined and they are now forced to sell their home.
From the court's decision, this from Deputy President...
Lady Hale:
...it is difficult to see how discriminating in this way against a same sex couple in a civil partnership could ever be justified. But it goes further than that. Parliament has created the institution of civil partnership in order that same sex partners can enjoy the same legal rights as partners of the opposite sex. They are also worthy of the same respect and esteem...
Mr and Mrs Bull are, of course, free to manifest their religion in many other ways. They do this by the symbolism of their stationery and various decorative items in the hotel...
Sexual orientation is a core component of a person’s identity which requires fulfilment through relationships with others of the same orientation.
So that's what religious freedom has decayed to in our day: "symbolism on stationery and various decorative items." Too, R2K's Sunday morning liturgies in the privacy of a building designated as a house of worship.
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