This has nothing to do with equal protection, people start talking about a few high profile cases as their basis for protection. Most of which occured before a huge positive shift towards orientation.

I believe there has been a lot of advances made, and if a black person used stories from the 60's to describe the mindset of whites towards blacks today, it wouldn't be a fair example.

I believe the people who killed gay people, as mentioned in examples above, should be made an example of in our justice system. They in no way represent the normal people in America. This post is bitching about discremination and I refuse to be lumped in with it. There are a lot of people who might not approve of gay people but would never beat them to death or shoot them.