Quick Debate: Tolerance should be granted to homophobes… as well as homosexuals




Intelligence Squared show

Summary: Intelligence Squared's Quick Debate is a For and Against analysis of the week's most hotly disputed public issue. This week's debate looks at tolerance. Gay rights are back on the agenda after a gay couple, Michael Black and John Morgan, were prevented from taking up a booking they had made at a B&B in Berkshire: the owner, Susanne Wilkinson, had disapproved of their relationship for religious reasons. The row was further inflamed last weekend when Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling sympathised with Wilkinson's views. Is such dislike of gay sex always an unacceptable prejudice? Or should homosexuals learn to tolerate the limits to other people’s tolerance of their lifestyles