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Homeowners Refuse to Sell House to Gay Couple
refused to let gay couple, Lachlan Mantell and Luke Whitehouse view or buy their house because of their sexual orientation.Whitehouse, 34, an education business owner, and Mantell, 37, a TV producer, have been together for the past eight years. They were keen on buying the £650,000 property.Whitehouse and Mantell (originally from Adelaide) requested to view the house.The homeowners, Luke Main, 33, a construction worker, and his wife, Dr Joanna Brunker, 34, a medical physicist at Cambridge University, asked the couple their “position” and “circumstances.”They then sent a message via the selling website Purplebricks to the couple before they could arrange to view the house.They wrote: “Dear Lachlan and Luke, thank you for sharing your circumstances with us.”We’re sorry if we seem intrusive, but we just want to make clear that we would be unwilling for two men in partnership to view or buy our house, as it is contrary to the gracious teaching in God’s Word, the Holy Bible, e.g.
