I don't believe ANYBODY should be purposefully discriminated against with regard to housing or employment because of their sexual orientation. Period.
If so, I am not surprised you would be angry with Farah.
Still, 30-40 years is a long time to pay the price for a mistake. On balance, I still have confidence that Bush made the right choice. But just barely.
It denied them all legal means to seek any protections under the law. The 14th Ammendment prohibits singling out a specific class of people, without some independent and legitimate legislative end, for such forfeiture of legal protections.
I don't believe ANYBODY should be purposefully discriminated against with regard to housing or employment because of their sexual orientation.
I won't hammer you on it, but it sure doesn't sound like a response that I would expect to hear from you.
So you believe that it's OK for government to interfere with PRIVATE property owners and PRIVATE employers as to who they may or may not rent property to or who they may or may not hire? You believe that it's OK to substitute the guns of government for the judgement of private individuals as to what is best, in their opinion, for THEM? Oh, it's only in this instance? How heartening. And other statists only want to control only a FEW aspects of the lives of others, so that's OK with you, too? Well, of course it is. Based on your shrill posts in many arenas, you are as much a control freak as Schumer or HiLIARy ever dreamt of being!
There was a lady in Sacramento some years back who refused to rent an apartment to an unmarried (hetero) couple because to do so would violate her strongly held beliefs. She was sued and lost. I suspect you would have led the cheers of the libs who were overjoyed when the lady lost her case and a whole HEAP of what little of her retirement funds she ever had.
It is perfectly OK for PRIVATE individuals to exercise whatever discrimination they choose, from whom they rent to, to who comes over for dinner, to who works for them... To go beyond that, to harrass or intimidate someone of whom they disapprove, THAT is where the law properly steps in... However, short of that, discrimination is proper and even normal; as you might choose Trix over Cheerios or bacon over steak, I might choose to rent my home to a married, heterosexual couple over a pair of lesbians or an UNmarried hetero couple or whatever. And we would both be right and proper in our choices... FOR US. As long as you don't start pouring out the Cheerios in the store aisle or I don't start chasing the lesbians down the street with a club in my hands.