{"id":256,"date":"2019-05-15T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=256"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:25","slug":"bed-breakfast-owner-held-to-have-no-religious-freedom-right-to-refuse-to-provide-lodging-to-a-lesbian-couple-protected-by-state-public-accommodations-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/05\/15\/bed-breakfast-owner-held-to-have-no-religious-freedom-right-to-refuse-to-provide-lodging-to-a-lesbian-couple-protected-by-state-public-accommodations-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed &amp; breakfast owner held to have no religious freedom right to refuse to provide lodging to a lesbian couple protected by state public accommodations law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a case decided several months before the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colo. Civ. Rights Comm&#8217;n, 138 S.Ct. 1719 (2018), the\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0Supreme Court held that there is no constitutional right to an exemption from a public accommodation law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, even if the accommodation is a small bed and breakfast business.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.hi.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CAAP-13-0000806.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Cervelli v. Aloha Bed &amp; Breakfast,<\/a>415 P.3d 919 (Haw. Ct. App. 2018). Nor did the law violate the owner&#8217;s rights to privacy or intimate association.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/religious-freedom\/\" rel=\"tag\">Religious Freedom<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case decided several months before the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colo. Civ. Rights Comm&#8217;n, 138 S.Ct. 1719 (2018), the\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0Supreme Court held that there is no constitutional right to an exemption from a public accommodation law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, even if the accommodation is a small bed and breakfast business.\u00a0Cervelli v. Aloha Bed &amp; Breakfast,415 P.3d 919 (Haw. Ct. App. 2018). Nor did the law violate the owner&#8217;s rights to privacy or intimate association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-religious-freedom"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}