How utterly sad that our elected representatives and senators appear incapable of making distinctions:
From the OP linked article:
Stealing the language of the civil rights movement, they have succeeded in making a flawed comparison between racial discrimination and homosexual sexual acts; even though it is a comparison without merit. Membership in a racial category is a status; homosexual sexual practices are voluntary sexual actions.
and this
Equating how one engages in non-marital sexual acts with a member of the same sex to being a member of a particular race or gender - thereby making practicing homosexuals a “protected class” for civil rights purposes - is legally and socially dangerous. One is a status; the other involves a behavior and a lifestyle.