No, I'm not at all misguided.
I am unaware of ANY LAW at the state or federal level that has EVER denied rights to homosexuals.
Did states have laws against sodomy? Sure, but this was about a sexual act, not a person's sexual orientation.
Did states have laws prohibiting certain people from voting? Sure, but it made no distinction about sexual orientation.
Did states have laws banning homosexuals from being married? NO! Homosexuals have ALWAYS had the same rights of marriage as anyone else, e.g. if they were of age and not otherwise barred from marriage (incarcerated, etc.), they were free to marry another person of the opposite gender. Even during the period of the abhorrent anti-miscegenation laws, nothing was said about a person's sexual orientation.
No, what homosexuals have been seeking now are SPECIAL rights that have NEVER been granted to anyone.
sigh :^(
The legal majority voters of California had exercised their 10th Amendment (10A)-protected power of the people to prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage. But their 10A powers were wrongly ignored by state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-gay activist justices.
And as I said in previous post, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBT agenda rights. So the corrupt feds actually have no constitutional authority to say yes or no to PC, vote-winning LGBT ”rights.”