Because the ruling hotel in Cornwall should be worried conservative Christian | Andrew Brown

Even pious judges and lawlords seem to have rejected the idea that laws should the Judeo-Christian position to reflect

Judge Andrew Rutherford ruling against the Cornish Christian couple who refused to provide a bed to a gay couple enter a narrow line to decide what counts as discrimination. It will undoubtedly enjoy the evangelical Christians who can use their own sense of a persecuted minority to strengthen, but the real point is a more subtle, about the equivalence of civil partnerships with marriage. This can also increase the anger of conservative evangelicals, but it's unlikely to win them many converts.

A spokesman for the Evangelical Alliance for once seemed to blame the law instead of court for its decision. "Human rights law must face up to its current lack of honesty and inability to decide, even on his own where rights clash This is particularly true of religious conscience and practice in public life."

The important point about Peter and Hazel Mary Bull, the couple who owns the Cornish hotel in question was that she really believed that their policy has not discriminate based on sexual orientation. Their line was that no unmarried couples, whether straight or gay, a double bedded room sharing, and evidence was presented to show that they had previously been in contact with heterosexual couples who had been away on for this reason, for as far back as 1996.

They are not, by the way, to oppose this immoral to use doubles pairs, as Judge Rutherford said: "Two persons of the same sex … who come to Cornwall to set a sexually fulfilling weekend, can enjoy the weekend completely in a twin-bedded room. Putting it bone, the policy of the hotel so they can do in the privacy of a smaller bed. "

So it really is not that the Bulls had a policy that is not an attempt to discriminate against gay unmarried couples more than it did against the law's car. The court is clear that this is a real clash of rights and principles sincere on both sides. His job is to balance them, or rather to discover how the law balances the two rights – the free exercise of religion and freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The crucial factor appeared that the gay couple, Martin Hall and Stephen Preddy, was included in a civil partnership to be. The law says that civil partners should be treated as married and in that sense the Bulls' policy is direct discrimination because there is no possibility of marriage is still less Christian marriage for gay couple. That's why they won their case.

Had they not in a partnership, things could have been very different. It appears from the testimony of Judge Rutherford, "I say nothing about what would have been the position if the plaintiffs had not entered into such a legal relationship or even if a heterosexual couple." So there's still a chance for another trial.

But the real difficulty for evangelicals and Christian conservatives is not in the wording of the ruling, but in the background from which it was taken. In particular, the introductory remarks of the judge that will cause them pain ". What could have been the position in recent centuries is no longer the case that our laws should, or automatically display the Judeo-Christian view giving "He goes on Lord Justice Laws, quoted in his statement about a similar case of a Relate counselor fired for refusing to give sex advice to gay couples:" The general law may of course protect a particular social or moral position that is espoused by Christianity, not because of its religious imprimatur, but on foot, in the speech merits its own command. "

The real pain for conservatives is that they are not the rantings of dogmatic secularists, but of the pillars of the established church. Lord Justice Laws is reportedly a devout Anglican, Judge Rutherford was until six months ago the president of the institution that the rates paid to ecclesiastical lawyers negotiate. If nothing else, this suggests that the laity of the Church of England no longer believe in the establishment.

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