"Yes, the fact that homosexuals are a specially protected class who can claim discrimination based on sexual something or other. "
Haven't women, the handicapped, and any other group that claims to be discriminated against, done so by claiming a group status? The fact that blacks have the right to vote puts them in a protected class that allows blacks to vote should you choose to think of it that way.
Under your logic, I, as a white male, am a protected class am allowed to work where I choose. There can be no discrimination unless a right existed first.
Women are women and cannot change that.
Handicapped people cannot be healed, thus their status as handicapped.
Black people cannot change their skin color (Michael Jackson aside).
Gay people can stop sleeping with members of the same sex, same as pet owners can find someplace else for their pet if they want to rent a place that has a no pets policy.
In the first place many blacks object to be homosexuality be lumped in the same category of civil rights as ethnicity, and many women object as well. In the second place, homosexuals already have the same rights as women and blacks and I have, voting being one example. Why the need for an ill-defined protected class? Are homosexuals being denied their right to vote?
How do you identify who is a member of the class of homosexuals, etc? If I claimed to be of that class so that I could claim some discrimination, how would you know if I was or wasn't a member of the class?
Why do you support the Supreme Politburo overruling the common sense preference of the people of the State of Colorado in this matter?
There can be no discrimination unless a right existed first.
If you mean legally, then I agree, which is why I also disagree with you, because in natural law there is no such thing as a "right" of homosexual conduct. It is a contradiction in terms. True rights command corresponding obligations on the part of others, but it is only tyranny that commands acceptance of and compliance with sexual perversion. So I regard any law that contravenes this truth as null and void, and no law at all.
Cordially,