MONTPELIER, Vt. — A lesbian couple who say a Vermont inn refused to host their wedding reception because of the owners' anti-gay bias are now suing, alleging discrimination under the state's public accommodations law.
Kate Baker and Ming Linsley, of New York, say they were turned away by the Wildflower Inn, a 24-room inn in Lyndonville, when they told the inn the wedding would have two brides but no groom.
A woman who answered the telephone at the Wildflower Inn said the owners weren't taking calls on the case.
The American Civil Liberties Union's Vermont chapter, which filed the suit Tuesday in Caledonia Superior Court, says the inn violated the state Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act, which bars public accommodations from denying services to people based on sexual orientation.