The Daily Mail: From the Message Boards.

Here's a few highlights from The Daily Mail message boards in response to the story; 'Gay pair who won cash from Christian B&B couple launch fight for more - and you are funding them'
Well, if it was in The Daily Mail, I guess it must be true*...

"These young men arn't doing themselves or their cause any favours. The photograph of them delighting in their 'victory' says it all."
- BB, BIRMINGHAM

"And this brigade want the general public to 'understand their plight' ?? Makes you nauseus just to think about THEIR conduct both in this and other matters ..... Pure unconcealed GREED ! Pray they lose it all !!!"
- J U Stanopinion, Down souf....

"My partner & I have both been divorced and have been together for 19 years but not married. If we had been turned away for this reason, we would just have found another B & B. What these people are doing is just vile, money grabbing and hurtful."
- Liz Redman, Tournon France

"I'm sure that all none gay people who have no negative feelings towards gay people are starting to despise people like you. You have definitely done damage to the integration and acceptance of gay people in the society because of your greed. And I hope your gay community turns on you."
John, Bonn.

That was just from the first few today. I don't think I can go on anymore - because of my sides.
But as the great Viv Stanshall would say now read on...

* Just to clarify, this story is completely bogus. Well done the Daily Mail another winner etc etc.

The Bulls: No Room For Jesus

A Daily Telegraph reporter bravely goes to visit the B&B of convicted bigots Mr and Mrs Bull down in Cornwall.
"Britain’s most reviled landlady is perched on the edge of her creamy sofa with its plump duck egg blue cushions and lovely matching pouffe. Did I say pouffe? No offence. To anyone. I meant, of course, footstool."
Oh dear...
Hazelmary Bull says she's found some recent online bookings extremely upsetting.
“Name: Jesus Christ; Address: Heaven; Special Dietary Requirements: You disgust me and all decent folk, you foul, foul beings. I hope you go bankrupt as a result of this. You are both vile specimens of humanity and you will go to hell.”

Moral Maze: Whose Rights?

There's been much ink spilled over the last week debating whether gay rights should trump Christian "rights" (ie bigotry).
Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times announced dramatically; 'This Is, Indeed, A Rosa Parks Moment' (If you can get past the paywall, there's also a video interview with Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy).
Radio 4's Moral Maze had an enjoyable heated debate on this vexed question yesterday.
Sadly the hilarious right-wing nutjob, Melanie Phillips, wasn't on - here's a predictably barking piece in The Daily Mail; 'Yes, gays have often been the victims of prejudice. But they now risk becoming the new McCarthyites' - but we did get Britain's best known ex-gay, Michael Portillo.

The Bulls: A Sense Of Perspective

"No one has tied me to a stake and set light to me yet, so we have to put this in perspective."

Hazelmary Bull loses all sense of perspective in a fawning Daily Mail profile; 'The Christian hotelier found guilty of gay bias looks set to lose her home and asks: So who's really being persecuted?'