Do B&B owners have the right to refuse entry?

A row has blown up recently when the Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Grayling was secretly taped suggesting people who run bed & breakfast in their own home "have the right" to turn away homosexual couples.This follows the case of Susanne Wilkinson, a christian B & B owner of Cookham, Berkshire who was reported to police after refusing to take a gay couple as guests as it was "against her convictions".

Do you agree with Chris Grayling "that an individual has the right to decide who does or doesn't come into their home" or do you agree with Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay rights group Stonewall, who says "The legal position is perfectly clear. If you are going to offer the public a commercial service - and B&Bs are a commercial service - then people cannot be refused that service on grounds of sexuality. No one is obliged to run a B&B, but people who do so have to obey the law.

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