Thiago Derucio and his partner were denied an apartment because they are gay. The rental consultant

Thiago Derucio and his partner were denied an apartment because they are gay. The rental consultant doesn t deny that was the reason but says her clients are free to choose tenants according to their personal religious beliefs.
In a case that pits religious freedoms against gay rights, a rental consultant freely admits she denied a Brampton apartment to a same-sex couple because the landlord is opposed to their sexual orientation.
Juliet Stewart says her clients, a Seventh-day cheap boston hotels Adventist husband and wife, told her in no uncertain terms during a screening interview that they would never allow a gay couple to rent their basement apartment.
“I’m going to take this (complaint) as far as I can to ensure this doesn’t happen to someone else. Nobody cheap boston hotels should have to go through cheap boston hotels this,’’ says Thiago Derucio, 26, a local singer who was turned away with his partner, Chris Prentice, 21.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s chief commissioner, Barbara Hall says that, generally speaking, issues such as the religion of a person offering a service determining who they’ll do business with has been found to “not be a competing right’’ in Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario cheap boston hotels judgments. In other words, cheap boston hotels when you go into business and put out services or products, you have to deal with whoever comes forward, regardless of religion, race or sexual orientation.
The code does make exemptions for sharing of facilities, such as a kitchen or a bathroom, but the Brampton case doesn’t cheap boston hotels appear to meet those criteria, cheap boston hotels Hall said, noting that if it’s a commercial enterprise, the operators “are governed by the Human Rights Code.”
The apartment conflict began a few weeks ago, after Derucio and Prentice responded by telephone to an online ad for a basement apartment Stewart advertised under her Rental Diva business, which Stewart told the Star isn’t licensed.
The case is similar to one heard before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal last year involving two gay men who were turned away from a bed and breakfast in 2009 because the owners of the now-defunct business were evangelical Christians.