The case of that awful old pair of anti-gay Christian bigots who run that hotel in wherever it was they filmed The Whicker Man has finally come to court. Several newspapers today had variations on this titular theme from the Telegraph; 'Hotel owners 'were set up' over gay couple - A homosexual couple suing the Christian owners of a seaside hotel may have booked a double room as a ''set-up'', a court heard yesterday'
Stonewall say they had been in contact with Mr and Mrs Bull telling them they were breaking the equality laws by not allowing gay couples to share a bed, but the booking made by Martyn Preddy and Steven Hall was made independently.
Even if they had been involved in a "set-up" Stonewall would only have been doing their job.
The far more interesting point about this case is not; ''Gay ban hotel owners to claim they were set up', as the ever politically illiterate Pink News put it.
It is that some leading figures in the Conservative government - most notably chairman [sic] Sayeeda Warsi, and former shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling - have been itching to find a case to use to overturn Labour's gay (and other) equality laws.
Here be it!
Even if the court rules against them this will not be the end of this "religious discrimination" farce.
Don't say I didn't try and warn you.
Update: Judgement has been deferred until after Christmas.
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