It can be argued that gay activists' drive to achieve protected class status threatens to impact more individuals in more life aspects than any other single political movement today. Special gay advantage legislation threatens:

• Parents, who fear the influence of homosexual militants on their children.
• School teachers and administrators, both public and private, against whom enormous pressure is now being exerted, both to hire homosexual militant teachers, and to persuade children that homosexuality is both normal and attractive behavior.
• Employers, business owners and America's military services, which face coercion to hire, recruit and promote homosexuals, and criminal action if they attempt to fire homosexuals.
• Employees, forced to "value" homosexual behavior or lose their jobs.
• Health care providers and workers, vulnerable to disease because of privacy given mostly-homosexual AIDS sufferers.
• Banks and insurance companies, compelled to endorse, protect and subsidize homosexual behavior financially.
• Legitimate minority groups, who face the loss of status and benefits by the de facto equation of their ethnicity with homosexuality.
• Landlords, forced to rent to homosexuals, thereby protecting behavior both landlords and renters may conscientiously deem reprehensible.
• Day-care operators, compelled to hire homosexuals to give care to small children.
• Churches, pastors, church workers and parachurch ministries, faced, in contradiction to firmly-held doctrine and belief, with having to hire homosexuals, threatened with criminal action and loss of tax-exempt status for merely speaking adversely of homosexual behavior.
• Governments and government workers, including America's military services, forced to hire and promote homosexuals based on sexual behavior (or mere alleged desire) alone, forced to award spousal benefits to homosexual "domestic partners," forced to share quarters and latrine facilities with homosexuals, forced into advocacy of the homosexual political agenda at all levels and in all branches of government service, enforcement of special gay advantage statutes and costly defense of those statutes against inevitable court challenges.

Why equating gay sexual orientation with true ethnicity would deprive individuals sincerely and intelligently opposing gay sexual practices of certain fundamental rights and attempt to compel those individuals, under threat of criminal prosecution, to violate private conscience.

Why granting "gayness" special minority status would bankrupt businesses in an already struggling economy, through deliberately provocative litigation and "affirmative action" demands by gays resulting from special gay advantage laws.

Why pooling homosexuals, bisexuals and lesbians with legitimate ethnic groups would cause government expenditures on gay extremist litigation and promotion that would rob true ethnic groups (including the handicapped) of urgently-needed resources, minority contracts and entitlement benefits.

Why special gay advantage laws would force schools to aggressively promote acceptance by students of gay lifestyles and encourage students to experiment with gay behavior.

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