No prizes for the predictable round of Christian articles claiming religious persecution over the ruling today in a Bristol court regarding the discrimination shown to a gay couple last year by the owners of a Cornish hotel. The judge ruled that the patrons of the Chymorvah Hotel broke the law by directly discriminating against their guests over a matter of biology indistinguishable philosophically from say skin colour or physical handicap because of their religious beliefs regarding marriage and homosexuality.
My own view is that the owners of this hotel are perfectly entitled to their views on marriage but by discriminating in a public or community setting they were enforcing those views on others who don't necessarily share them; unfortunately in the case of organised religions this kind of insensitivity remains the norm. I'm left thinking that if this enforcement of equal treatment in society is what it means to "sideline Christianity" then I'm all for it!
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