UK: Hotel owners fined for refusing gay couple a room

Jan 18, 2011

LONDON (AP) -- A Christian couple were fined Tuesday for refusing to allow a gay couple the use of a double room at their hotel in southern England, capping a case that has drawn national attention and which the judge himself described as very difficult.

There was a media uproar after Martyn Hall and his partner Steven Preddy were turned away from Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion, in southwestern England, in 2008. Husband and wife Peter and Hazelmary Bull - both devout Christians - had refused on religious grounds to let the two men share a room. the rest