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A couple decide to holiday in a popular tourist district. Having tried to book into a hotel they end up fighting a discrimination case for two-and-a-half years. They are refused a double bedroom on the grounds that they are unmarried. The devoutly Christian owners of the hotel are opposed to sex before marriage and therefore deny unmarried couples rooms with double beds. The couple are shocked, and after a court rules that they had been discriminated against, one partner recounts: ‘we have stayed in places that you might think would be far more traditional and religious […] and had double beds with no worries at all’ (The Guardian, 19 January 2011: 1).
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© 2013 Brian Heaphy, Carol Smart and Anna Einarsdottir
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Heaphy, B., Smart, C., Einarsdottir, A. (2013). Introduction. In: Same-Sex Marriages. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311061_1
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