Arent gay and lesbian people already protected from discrimination under the Constitution and through laws and court rulings?
No federal or Missouri State laws make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The courts have ruled that, absent such laws, sexual orientation discrimination can be practiced. Nor is there some general legal doctrine which protects gay people against discrimination. This is amply demonstrated by the fact that every accredited law school in the United States, under a requirement of the American Association of Law Schools, has a sexual orientation clause in its nondiscrimination clause. Law professors and law school deans arent dumb. If the law already provided protection for sexual minorities, law school accreditation would not require sexual orientation nondiscrimination clauses.
