"we don't accept gays and dogs"

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Catholic guest house owners reject gay couple because ‘we don’t accept gays and dogs’

The owners of a guest house have come under fire for refusing to host a gay couple.
The B&B bosses, who are devout Catholic, told the two men that “we don’t accept gays and animals”.
Now politicians and locals have criticised the owners for being discriminatory.

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Filippo Mondella, owner of the guest house, told Radio Capital: “This is important and I don’t want to appear like a troglodyte, but we don’t accept gays and dogs” and
he did not mean to offend by inferring that gay people are like animals.

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Local authorities labelled the incident “a serious case of discrimination and homophobia”.
Giulia Russo, the mayor of Ricadi, said: “We completely distance ourselves from this.
“In Ricadi we are civil and evolved people and such discrimination is not acceptable in 2017.”

Italy is one of the least LGBT-friendly places in the EU.
The country still outlaws same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, access to IVF for lesbians and has no discrimination protections for gay people accessing goods and services.

[irisblue]

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I'd much rather be with a dog.