Some interesting comments here and for that matter some disturbing tripe.

Pete from Seven Stars Link says a bit further up that you cannot be a bigot for holding Christian views. There's a good example of tripe. If your view is bigoted, justifying it in the big book of tales just makes the matter worse. it becomes holding a bigoted view and twisting the moral compass of many people to justify that bigotry. And that's disgraceful.

I don't always think that laws cover all things equally and in passing laws, politicians sometimes have to fail a few in order to protect the many. (Ok, sometimes the other way around but that's another story...) However, in passing equality laws, it becomes simple. If you offer something to people, you can't let your petty hatred of others get in the way of the service you offer. Hence if you use a bed and breakfast, you expect to be able to use it without being singled out for you choice of lover and without being labelled "militant." I used to prefer brunettes to blonds, that does not make me militant any more than a bloke preferring other blokes. It makes those who wish to discriminate against me all the more needing to be resisted by decent society.

Amazing how this thread started about a small place in the States and the disgusting views of 15 people, (not to mention the lack of decency of those who abstained,) and it has progressed into people justifying the act by expressing their own brand of bigotry! I was hoping that the segregationism mentioned here was nothing to do with religion, but reading some of the tripe here, and especially by this Pete character.. It's amazing how you can justify being a bigot just by saying being a Christian makes it alright.

Real Christians hopefully disown you.