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Originally Posted by Kymmy
I don't think we'll ever truely know why the soho landlord asked them to leave but I do think that with all the protests and publicity that other landlords will think about their reasons before asking the same.
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I think that the situation with the Soho pub will continue to develop and I can't see this ending here.
As I understand the equality legislation, and please correct me if I am wrong, if it ends up in court, which it might, the pub will have acted unlawfully unless it could prove that the pub's staff would have reacted in the same way if it had been a mixed sex couple who had been kissing - ie asked them to leave.
If this does end up in court it will be an interesting test case and then the pub will have to give the reasons why they behaved in the way that they did.