Posted on 03/28/2010 12:49:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The two Christian hoteliers cleared last year of insulting a Muslim guest are being forced to sell up because their business has collapsed.
Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang are putting their nine-bedroom hotel up for auction in May because they can no longer pay the mortgage.
Despite donations sent to them by Christian supporters from around the world, they still have debts of well over £400,000.
They are also considering a civil action against the police who brought the prosecution.
Mrs Vogelenzang, 54, said last night it was 'devastating' that they could be left with nothing as the result of a case that should never have come to court.
'Where do we go from here?' she said. 'How do we start all over again?'
The couple saw their Liverpool business brought to its knees after an investigation into what was deemed a religiously aggravated hate crime against Ericka Tazi. The 60-year-old white British convert complained that the couple had called the prophet Mohammed a 'warlord' and told her that Muslim women were oppressed.
The case against them was thrown out after a judge at Liverpool magistrates' court said it flew in the face of their right to freedom of religious expression.
After the victory, the couple hoped they would be able to revive the Bounty House Hotel near Aintree racecourse, which they had built up over ten years.
Four months later, however, they have failed to attract enough customers and are losing about £8,000 a month.
One of their main sources of income before the case was the National Health Service, which used Bounty House for doctors attending conferences and groups of patients on pain-relief courses at the Walton Centre, part of Aintree Hospital. But the centre stopped sending guests to the hotel after the complaint by Mrs Tazi,
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Well, they’re Christians after... /s
And it continues...
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So now that the cash from the UK’s Socialized Medicine Program is no longer coming in, there business is failing.
Yep, same sort of thing will be the eventual result of the government takeover of our health care system. You play ball the feds or you loose everything.
Yeah, that government money is sweet and for some reason they could not attract private business and vacation travelers to their hotel.
The couple saw their Liverpool business brought to its knees after an investigation into what was deemed a religiously aggravated hate crime against Ericka Tazi. The 60-year-old white British convert complained that the couple had called the prophet Mohammed a ‘warlord’ and told her that Muslim women were oppressed.
Absolute madness. Anyone who thinks this eventually won’t morph into civil unrest isn’t paying attention
Apparently KFC in the UK went Halal!
When facts become hate crimes the society is lost.
Where business is faliing? There? Or over there?
NHS promoting Eurabia.Coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
Damn, I usually do not screw that one up.
So now that the cash from the UK’s Socialized Medicine Program is no longer coming in, their business is failing.
Same thing Obama wants to do to America.
Fealty Towers.
HIDEOUS.
Dadgum it. Muslim this muslim that. Does ANY leader in America have a sac to just shut this danged cultists up or are we going to run to the catacombs, run to the train stations that promise us a new life in Bergen Belson ? Are we going to ALLOW thise sharia dhimmi BS or is ANYONE going to stand up thje THEIOR INTOLERANCE. Screw this other cheeek stuff...take up the sword ( The Bible) and remember Ephesians last two chapters and NEVER give an inch in this war.
That wouldn’t require any sort of change, except in advertising.
After all, KFC doesn’t stand for Kentucky Fried Pork... you know.
:-P
The 60-year-old white British convert
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Let me get this straight.
If I were a Catholic convert and you told me that the Virgin Mary was an utter impossible circumstance and Jesus ‘hung around’ the desert with 12 guys, much like hippies, I am then ALLOWED to sue you and charge you with hate crimes?
WTF is going on?
Have we, as a world, gone insane?
THE MADNESS, THE MADNESS......
I called the suicide hot line in Afghanastan and they asked me if I could drive a truck????
No more bacon chicken sandwiches
Well... I learn something new everyday!
When did KFC start selling Bacon Chicken Sandwiches?
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