Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling has taken a very dodgy position on civil liberties. He is reported to have said:
"I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.
"If they are running a hotel on the High Street, I really don't think that it is right in this day and age that a gay couple should walk into a hotel and be turned away because they are a gay couple, and I think that is where the dividing line comes."
B and Bs are businesses, whether its run in your own home or on the high street. As such anti-discrimination laws apply, no argument, no debate, no trying to excuse homophobia.
Discrimination is discrimination. If you want to run a business, whether it is on the high st or not, do not use it to push homophobia and hatred.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for those Tory MEPs... and as for Cameron's lack of grasp of his party on LGBTI issues...
Good Blog!