March 28, 2024

Vancouver gay couple wins discrimination case

Victory for a Vancouver gay couple, who took the owners of a Grand Forks bed and breakfast to the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

The Tribunal has ordered the evangelical christian owners of Riverbend B&B to pay Shaun Eadie and Brian Thomas nearly 45-hundred dollars in damages and costs — after the couple’s reservation was cancelled three years ago.

Les and Susan Molnar argued they were exercising their right to freedom of religion.

But in her decision, tribunal member Enid Marion ruled that as a business, the bed and breakfast cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation.

The molnars no longer operate a bed and breakfast, saying they shut it down after all the attention from the human rights complaint.

CKNW Vancouver News

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