the author is starting with the assumption that their sexual fetish is an immutable trait like skin color.
It is like asking a sociopath to empathize with others.
How many other unacceptable behaviors have to be “accepted”?
How about can cannibals and non cannibals live together?
And that was the justification for annulling laws related to Race.
It was a genetic characteristic, not based on individual choice and behavior, which can be regulated in a free society.
The only behavior ever granted the status of civil right before the 1960s in our society was religion (creed).
Now those who practice all sorts of aberrant behavior claim a civil right to do so since they're a minority.
Murder is practiced by a minority. Does that make it a civil right, and its practitioners a Protected Class?
One in side the other? Bad pun I know.