BNP leader Nick Griffin has said people have the "right to discriminate", after he put the address of a gay couple who won a landmark court ruling on Twitter.
A court ruled a guest house owner had discriminated against Michael Black and John Morgan when she turned them away.
Mr Griffin said the men had "abused the system to persecute" the Christian owner, after earlier urging Twitter followers to hold a demonstration.
The couple, from Cambridgeshire, called the tweets a "damp squib".
Mr Black said police and neighbours were keeping an eye on their property.
'Bit of drama'Mr Griffin is being investigated by police over the tweets published on the @nickgriffinmep account.
Two of the posts read: "So Messrs Black & Morgan, at [their address]. A British Justice team will come up to Huntington & give you a..." and "...bit of drama by way of reminding you that an English couple's home is their castle. Say No to heterophobia!".
End Quote Michael BlackWe live in a village where it wouldn't be easy for him or many people to come and gather"
An earlier tweet on the North West region MEP's account had asked for the couple's address and then said: "We'll hold demo... for rights of all home owners, gays included, to rent or not rent rooms to whomsoever they wish."
Speaking to BBC Wales, Mr Black said Mr Griffin needed to accept that people who chose to offer a service to the public needed to abide by the law.
"We've been told that Nick Griffin is threatening to come to our house and hand out leaflets outside," Mr Black added.
"But, we live in a village where it wouldn't be easy for him or many people to come and gather.
"There's nowhere to park for a start and very few people walk past apart from school children.
"If anything happens it would be a damp squib."
'Right to discriminate'Speaking to the BBC, Mr Griffin said he spoke out for the "silent majority".
"They [Mr Black and Mr Morgan] used and abused the system to persecute a Christian couple.
"I think people have the right to discriminate," he added.
"I said we will be holding a demonstration in Huntingdon. It doesn't necessarily mean outside their house."
He claimed that the reference "give you a bit of drama" in his tweet was commenting on the fact the couple are involved in amateur dramatics, and he had only wanted a "peaceful" demonstration.
He dismissed a suggestion that lobbying Parliament would be more appropriate and said "you have to be slightly more forceful".
"I believe in peaceful, direct action."
Mr Black, 64, and Mr Morgan, 59, went to court after they were refused a double room at Swiss Bed and Breakfast, Berkshire, by its owner.
When they arrived in March 2010, owner Susanne Wilkinson, who is a Christian, would not let them stay in a room with a double bed.
On Thursday, recorder Claire Moulder said that by refusing the couple access to a double room, Mrs Wilkinson had "treated them less favourably than she would treat unmarried heterosexual couples in the same circumstances".
However, the recorder accepted that Mrs Wilkinson was genuine about her Christian beliefs and had also stopped unmarried heterosexual couples from sharing a double bed.
Andy Wasley, from gay rights group Stonewall, said: "Placing a street number and name on Twitter, with tens of thousands of followers, as Mr Griffin seems to have, is clearly a decision that he either didn't think about very much, or he thought about a little too much.
"It was an alarming decision and that couple must have been deeply distressed by it."
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