What people miss is that this law makes sexual orientation synonymous with race. Dislike a gay-dislike a race. Under the law, gays ARE a race of people. Based on the notion that people are born gay and others are (let's say) Asian. Therefore to discriminate against a gay person equals being racist against that person. Many people do not believe sexual preference constitutes race. It has not been proven people are actually born gay and therefore ARE technically a race of people by DNA etc. What the law has done in business is to create a war in the workplace. The pecking order works like this: Gay women create cliques and take over the business. Straight women are second class citizens. People of color (gay or not) are 3rd class citizens. All straight men must be eliminated from the business-especially white males and gay males are considered for ejection on a case by case basis. I watched this happen to a city business. The gay staff eliminated 50% of the straights without opposition.