Should LGBT be made a federally-protected class of people?

[Shadow Wolf]

How about just simply taking your business and money elsewhere? To force my money into the pocket of a person who doesn't want my money seems counterproductive to me. If a baker doesn't want to bake you a cake, go to one who does.

A huge chunk of America is rural, which pretty much means they may not be able to do that.

 

[Ellen Brown]

I don't want to be denied a job, healthcare, education or a home loan because the prospective employer, provider, school or loan officer at the bank merely thinks I am gay. I would not openly reveal my sexual orientation to a prospective employer or any of the others I mentioned anyway because it's none of their business in the first place.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women were heavily discriminated against, blacks were heavily discriminated against, Jews were heavily discriminated against and Catholics were heavily discriminated against and this Act has protected those human PEOPLE since the mid-1960's.

LBGT are human PEOPLE too and need equal protection under federal law against redneck hillbilly state mentality.

It's not about creating a new protected class just for the sake of it, it's about protecting all humans equally.

This redneck peckerwood Lankford, had he been a Senator in a Southern state in the 1950's, might have sported a Klansman hood and a hang rope. He might have burned black churches and beat up black people. He would have probably been pro-Jim Crow and wanted to keep black people at the back of the bus and out of "white" drinking fountains.

I still wrote this man out of the principle of being an American. I was following my conscience.

My apologies. I should not have commented unless I read the whole OP.

 

[Shad]

The Civil Rights act needs to be update to include better language so the courts do not need to use sex and sex-stereotypes to argue for protection. Courts do not have the force of law after all.

 

[Thief]

I don't want to be denied a job, healthcare, education or a home loan because the prospective employer, provider, school or loan officer at the bank merely thinks I am gay. I would not openly reveal my sexual orientation to a prospective employer or any of the others I mentioned anyway because it's none of their business in the first place.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women were heavily discriminated against, blacks were heavily discriminated against, Jews were heavily discriminated against and Catholics were heavily discriminated against and this Act has protected those human PEOPLE since the mid-1960's.

LBGT are human PEOPLE too and need equal protection under federal law against redneck hillbilly state mentality.

It's not about creating a new protected class just for the sake of it, it's about protecting all humans equally.

This redneck peckerwood Lankford, had he been a Senator in a Southern state in the 1950's, might have sported a Klansman hood and a hang rope. He might have burned black churches and beat up black people. He would have probably been pro-Jim Crow and wanted to keep black people at the back of the bus and out of "white" drinking fountains.

I still wrote this man out of the principle of being an American. I was following my conscience.

thank you

 

[SugarOcean]

No.

 

[Ellen Brown]

No.

It is abominable that ANYONE should be hated and attacked for being different. For me, the largest tormentors in life have been the self righteous.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

No.

How, utterly, typical for a Christian to have no compassion for those least among them.