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Article Title:	Sexual Orientation Regulations 2006
Author of reported comment:	Jamie Hurst
Comment Date:	11:33 on Mar 22 2007
Comment:	I think a very important issue has been missed in regards to the SOR (which has passed the House of Lords, and will become law at the end of April 2007). If an exemption had been granted to people of faith, in respect of goods and services, where exactly do you draw the line? If we say that it is ok for a Hotel to turn away a single sex couple, because of the conflict with the Hotel owner’s faith, would it not equally be ok for a Doctor, or Nurse, to refuse to treat a man or woman they knew to be gay/lesbian? What’s the difference? If you grant an exemption for one, why not the other? Surely anything else would be blatant hypocrisy. So I would like to know where exactly would faith groups would have draw the line on an individual’s right to refuse services to homosexuals? Just how far would they have been willing to go? Discrimination is discrimination – no matter how you dress it up. Whether it be a religious belief, or simply a personal one. If you refuse to provide a service to one group of people, that you would happily provide to another, then you are acting in a discriminatory manor. There is no difference between discrimination due to skin colour, sex, ability/disability or sexual orientation. Discrimination is one of the greatest evils of the modern world. Those that disagree should go back to the good book and read Matthew 7, verses 11-12 – and also brush up on the story of the “Good Samaritan.”

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