Gay couple hail hotel snub ruling

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;gay-couple-hail-hotel-snub-ruling&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"Gay couple Steven Preddy &lpar;left&rpar; and Martyn Hall have been awarded damages after a hotel refused to give them a double room" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;min-gay-couple-hail-hotel-snub-ruling&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Gay couple Steven Preddy &lpar;left&rpar; and Martyn Hall have been awarded damages after a hotel refused to give them a double room"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A gay couple have welcomed a court ruling which said Christian hotel owners had acted unlawfully when they refused to let them stay in a double room&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy said the decision showed no-one was above the law&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They had taken Peter and Hazelmary Bull to court after they were turned away from the couple&&num;8217&semi;s hotel in Cornwall in September 2008 having booked a double room&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a ruling at Bristol County Court&comma; Judge Andrew Rutherford said the Bulls had acted unlawfully and ordered them to pay the couple £1&comma;800 each in damages and their legal costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Hall&comma; 46&comma; and Mr Preddy&comma; 38&comma; from Bristol&comma; made the claim for sexual orientation discrimination under the Equality Act &lpar;Sexual Orientation&rpar; Regulations 2007&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re really pleased that the judge has confirmed what we already know &&num;8211&semi; that in these circumstances our civil partnership has the same status in law as a marriage between a man and a woman&comma; and that&comma; regardless of each person&&num;8217&semi;s religious beliefs&comma; no-one is above the law&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr and Mrs Bull&comma; who run the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion near Penzance&comma; Cornwall&comma; were backed by the Christian Institute&period; They said they would consider appealing against the decision&comma; which means the case could be heard at the High Court and in Europe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We are obviously disappointed with the result&period; Our double-bed policy was based on our sincere beliefs about marriage&comma; not hostility to anybody&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mrs Bull said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It was applied equally and consistently to unmarried heterosexual couples and homosexual couples&comma; as the judge accepted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We are trying to live and work in accordance with our Christian faith&period; As a result we have been sued and ordered to pay £3&comma;600&period; But many Christians have given us gifts&comma; so thanks to them we will be able to pay the damages&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Bull added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I do feel that Christianity is being marginalised in Britain&period; The same laws used against us have been used to shut down faith-based adoption agencies&period; Much is said about &&num;8216&semi;equality and diversity&&num;8217&semi; but it seems some people are more equal than others&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ee97cb8797e">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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