Comment of the Week: Peter Hitchens on the Cornish B&B

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I deliberately haven’t commented much on the recent case in England of a couple running a B&B enforcing a policy of no-double-bed-if-you’re-not-married have been found guilty of infringing the rights of a gay couple.  There is much commentary out there unpacking what this implies for the equivalence (or otherwise) of civil unions with marriage, the  nature of the discrimination that occurred, the issue of “competing” rights (and the fact that only one right was given government assistance to defend).  Peter Ould pretty much says it all really.

But the Comment of the Week comes from Peter Hitchens who links the issue with a progressive tyranny alluded to in a book I read recently.  Commenting on the Cornish B&B case Hitchens states, “As I suspected they would, the Christian hotel owners, Peter and Hazelmary Bull, came off worse in their courtroom struggle against Politically Correct Britain.” And concludes:

“This is not the end of the revolution we are passing through. By the time it is finished, I will not be allowed to write or say this. Don’t believe me? Wait and see.”

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