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February 09, 2008
Woman who refused to sell puppy to lesbian fined in Sweden
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Stockholm's appeals court on Monday found a kennel owner who had refused to sell a puppy to a lesbian woman guilty of discrimination, slapping her with a 20,000-kronor (2,300-euro, 3,100-dollar) fine.
The kennel owner, 51-year-old Anette Sjoeholm, was guilty of "discrimination in the form of harassment," the court said in its ruling, which echoed a lower-court finding in 2006.
Smila Bergstroem had contacted Sjoeholm to purchase one of the puppies she had advertised for sale, but when she let it slip that she lived with another woman, Sjoeholm had refused to go through with the sale, according to the TT news agency.
The kennel owner reportedly made it clear to Bergstroem that she did not trust homosexuals, telling her she had read that transvestites sexually abused animals.
Posted by ronnie at February 9, 2008 07:41 AM