A couple who were told they could not get married at a riverside village venue because it did not host same-sex weddings has criticised the SA Human Rights Commission's (SAHRC) 'tardiness in this case'
They discovered the commission was going ahead with its case on Monday. “Had they addressed the incident in 2017, we [Megan and Sasha] and the number of other couples turned away by the venue would never have suffered the unfair discrimination and humiliation.”
“Beloftebos’ decision not to organise and host same-sex weddings is because of the owners’ deeply held religious convictions that marriage is a sacred covenant between a man and a woman in the presence of God, as well as a symbolic picture of the love and commitment between Christ [as the bridegroom] and his church [the bride]," said their legal representative, Daniela Ellerbeck.
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