B&B owner keeps 'no gays' stance
A GUEST house owner was unrepentant last night despite being dropped by VisitScotland for refusing a gay couple a double room and branding them "sexual deviants".
The tourism body took action against Tom Forrest, the proprietor of the Cromasaig guest house in Wester Ross, who told Stephen Nock and his partner they could not stay in a double room.VisitScotland has withdrawn the premises from its quality assurance scheme and its website for his "appalling treatment" of the couple.
But Mr Forrest dismissed the action and his views were still clear on the guest house website last night. On it he states: "We will only allow heterosexual couples and singles to occupy our double-bedded rooms."
Asked about the VisitScotland move he said: "I think they are a shower of bloody nerds basically.
This was discussed on the BBC's Question Time programme with naturally a politically correct response. Whilst condemning the guest house owner, in the same programme they discussed an outright ban on smoking, except in private, as a desirable idea. Of course, the arguments about smoking and about homosexuality are totally different, but isn't it a pity how you can criticise men and heterosexuality and that is just an opinion but you criticise homosexuality and you're a bigot.
Really strange take you have... you seem obsessed with gay men. Its weird - why are a bunch of straight guys always talking about gay guys? You have some serious personal issues...
Posted by: Paul | April 12, 2005 at 11:27 AM