An Illinois inn that refused to allow a same-sex couple hold their civil union ceremony on the property was fined more than $80,000 by the Illinois Human Rights Commission on Tuesday.
An administrative law judge with the commission ordered TimberCreek Bed & Breakfast to pay $15,000 each to Todd and Mark Wathen for emotional distress.
The Wathens had contacted TimberCreek in 2011 as they looked for possible locations for the ceremony.
TimberCreek owner Jim Walder had responded to the Wathens’ inquiry with an email that said “homosexuality is immoral and unnatural,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
TimberCreek, located about 100 miles south of Chicago, must also pay $50,000 in attorneys’ fees and $1,218.35 in costs.
“We are very happy that no other couple will have to experience what we experienced by being turned away and belittled and criticized for who we are,” Todd Wathen said in a statement.
A representative from TimberCreek was not immediately available to comment.
The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in June 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-illinois-gaymarriage-idUSKCN0WV20U
If these two fags can get this type of money for emotional distress.
Then I guess the big brother .gov owes me at least 50 mil for what they’ve done to me.
Unfkngbelievable. I’m almost speechless.
“The Wathens had contacted TimberCreek in 2011 as they looked for possible locations for the ceremony.”
BULLSH#T!!!
These ‘vaginally challenged’ FAGGOTS were looking for a possible BIG PAYDAY!
I hope they’re BOTH cursed with NUMEROUS hemorrhoids the size of GOLF BALLS for the rest of their UNNATURAL, PERVERTED LIVES!!!
Like the spineless jellyfish SWATTING legal gun owners, I don;t doubt homos are purposely seeking out venues that will reject their “civil ceremonies” so they can sue them. Low life garbage! What ever happened to free association?
These two could have gone some where else but NOOOOO. This once great country had gone to completely FRELLED UP