{"id":31451,"date":"2012-03-19T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_houses_of_worship_anne_jolis_can_britain_tolerate_christians\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:00:13","slug":"wsj_houses_of_worship_anne_jolis_can_britain_tolerate_christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31451","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ Houses of Worship) Anne Jolis: Can Britain Tolerate Christians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, hoteliers Peter and Hazelmary Bull made some mocking headlines when reporters noticed their stodgy guest policy: No double rooms for unmarried couples. &#8220;You have got to have principles,&#8221; Mrs. Bull told the Mirror at the time, under the headline &#8220;You Couldn&#8217;t Make It Up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls had been turning away unwed mini-breakers from their Cornish guesthouse since 1986, and no one had sued them for it yet. It was, after all, no crime to be the least-cool B&#038;B in England.<\/p>\n<p>That appears to have changed. Last month a British appeals court upheld a \u00c2\u00a33,600 ($5,800) fine against the Bulls, who in 2008 turned down Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy for a double room despite their being joined in a civil partnership&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304692804577283380383835556.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, hoteliers Peter and Hazelmary Bull made some mocking headlines when reporters noticed their stodgy guest policy: No double rooms for unmarried couples. &#8220;You have got to have principles,&#8221; Mrs. Bull told the Mirror at the time, under<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31451\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}