Peter and Hazelmary Bull were breaking the law when they denied Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy a room at their hotel in Cornwall in September 2008.
Judge Andrew Rutherford made the ruling in a written judgment at Bristol County Court as he awarded the couple £1,800 each in damages.
Mr Hall and Mr Preddy, from Bristol, were seeking up to £5,000 damages claiming sexual orientation discrimination under the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007.
At a hearing last month, the Bulls denied the claim, saying they have a long-standing policy of banning all unmarried couples both heterosexual and gay from sharing a bed at the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion near Penzance...
In his ruling, Judge Rutherford said that, in the last 50 years, social attitudes in Britain had changed.
"We live today in a parliamentary democracy. Our laws are made by the Queen in Parliament," the judge said.
"It is inevitable that such laws will from time to time cut across deeply held beliefs of individuals and sections of society for they reflect the social attitudes and morals prevailing at the time that they are made.
"In the last 50 years there have been many such instances - the abolition of capital punishment; the abolition of corporal punishment in schools; the decriminalisation of homosexuality and of suicide; and on a more mundane level the ban on hunting and on smoking in public places.
"All of these - and they are only examples - have offended sections of the population and in some cases cut across traditional religious beliefs.
"These laws have come into being because of changes in social attitudes. The standards and principles governing our behaviour which were unquestioningly accepted in one generation may not be so accepted in the next.
While this sad tale transpired in merry old England, more of this sort of rubbish is heading our way, I fear, in the age of Obama and friends. The ruling from Judge Rutherford is remarkable in that it regurgitates, in elegant sounding legalese, the modern-day relativism and positivism that threaten the very foundations of our civilization, and enshrines it in law.
More and more, anyone who opposes the normalization of homosexuality will be faced with various brands of the U.K.'s "Equality Act Regulations," and hauled before such bodies as the "Equality and Human Rights Commissions." Such "Commissions" exist for one reason: to ramrod Marxist, materialist heresies about humanity and equality down the throats of everyone in society for the purpose of remaking society according to their vision of a post-Christian, amoral culture. Those who have the temerity to question their infallible dictates are branded as vile bigots of the worst kind, and slapped with all sorts of legal fees and punishments until they learn the benefits of docility and silence. Are Catholics ready for this?
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