My Nostrodamus powers of prediction were looking a bit iffy about the the gay couple turned away from the Cookham B&B story being ideal material for future passive aggressive articles about bolshy gays and persecuted Christians, the sort of thing that appears every month or two in the papers. It seemed that the story had not warranted the coverage I thought it might have done, and had run its course; the end of the affair completely. But I was wrong as Littlejohn has stuck his thruppenceworth in on it, so I don't have to quite give up the fortune telling job quite yet. It is however nice to know that Britain's best paid columnist has continued his time honoured tradition of just making shit up to get his points across better.
Welcome to Tolerance Towers. Rule 1: No tolerance
"Perhaps if her advert had emphasised 'run by devout Christian' (Rule one, No Poofters), John and Michael may have taken the hint and booked in somewhere else.
Why stay where you're not welcome? I certainly wouldn't check into a temperance hotel."
There was no hint for them to take. They didn't know that she was a devout Christian, the advert says anyone was welcome to stay. There's a nice double implication here that a) they should have known beforehand to expect it, and b) blatant homophobia is just something gay people should just "get used to". (the comment seem to me to be loaded that the couple were really to blame.)
"But this is where it gets out of hand. The police are now investigating Mrs Wilkinson and she's been deluged with hate mail from homosexual fundamentalists."
They complained to the rozzers about a homophobic incident, they are going to investigate. I'd imagine even the most trivial calls (homophobic incidents are hardly "trivial") are "investigated", and are concluded as some loony on the phone thinks Elvises ghost lives in their loft. Tell him whatever. Investigation over.
Back to the case at hand. They have decided that the owner hasn't committed an offence, so if they want compensation to speak to a solicitor. Done (for their part.) Investigate don't mean being charged. Oh and nobody really knows who sent the messages (which are vile, and a horrible way to respond to this) so it may not just be down to "homosexual fundamentalists"**, whatever the hell that means.
"But prosecuting someone for holding sincere Christian convictions and making violent threats against her proves yet again that in New Labour's Britain tolerance is a one-way street."
She WASN'T PROSECUTED FOR IT!! You know a minor case of missing the point completely. Some people sadly do react very badly to emotive issues, this did happen before 1997. I bet he was dying to end that one way street sentence with back alley.
"her B&B in Wokingham"
It's in Cookham, Wokingham is a good 15 miles away
Glad to see that £800,000 salary is being well earned.
** The term "Homosexual Fundamentalist" doesn't make a lick of sense in it's original context. It just means getting back to basics. Is a homosexual fundamentalist, just couples who have man love in the nude? Or is it just a term to imply that gay people are the real zealots. I wonder which it might be?
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