Hazelmary Bull, a Christian B&B owner who was fined over her policy of restricting double rooms to married couples, has told the BBC that Britain’s democratic society should be “big enough” to deal with differences. Mrs Bull owns the Chymorvah hotel in Cornwall with her husband Peter and they were ordered to pay £3,600 in 2011 over the policy. She appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics South West show on 4 March 2012.
The head of the BBC Mark Thompson has walked into a storm of controversy by admitting that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed in the same way that it mocks Jesus — The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that marriage should not be redefined in law — Ann Widdecombe, has called for contentious issue of redefining marriage to be put to a public vote — Equalities Minister, Lynne Featherstone, has been told that she does not ‘own’ marriage and should listen to the people — The Coalition for Marriage has launched an online petition in support of the current legal definition of marriage and has gained over 66,000 signatures in just 10 days — Christians are facing genuine legal difficulties in Britain, according to a new report which criticises the ‘Equality Act’ for failing to deal with the tensions between different strands of equality — A local council is set to remove a cross from a Crematorium in Bath, to make it more ‘inclusive’ even though no one appears to have ever complained about the Christian symbol — A controversial article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics says that medics should be able to kill newborn babies if they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted — Abortion has been trivialised according to Commentator and medical psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple — And the number of marriages in 2010 rose by almost four per cent on the previous year.