It never really was about sex, was it; it was about love...

"I bring a message of peace and brotherly love, and if you don't agree with me I shall smite you."

No wonder Christianity is so popular: it's a win-win scenario.

People are arguing this one as a matter of choice, of ideals and ethics and such. What bugs me most of all is that, if this goes the way that it doubtless will, a Christian hotelier/restaurateur/Madame will be able to turn a gay couple away from their hotel/restaurant/cathouse with impunity - but just let a gay owner try to turn a Christian/Jewish/Moslem/whatever couple away from their establishment. The Christians will argue that their faith is none of the owners' business and that they should be allowed in, despite the feelings of the proprietor, and to deny them their bed/dinner/favourite whore is an infringement of their rights, etc.

How is a person's sexuality any less private, any more somebody else's business, than someone's faith?! You can't get much more private than that. There's that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian, towards the end, where the crowd is outside Brian's window and his mother comes out to try to get them to go away:

Man: Are you a virgin?
Mandy: I beg your pardon?!
Man: Well, if it's not a personal question... are you a virgin?
Mandy: IF IT'S NOT A PERSONAL QUESTION!?!? How much more personal can you get?!
Man: She is, yeah, gotta be.

Quite what business it is who I, or anyone else sleeps with (as long as it's legal and not non-consensually abusive) is nobody's business but my own. If a person's religion can be secured by their 'rights', then so can a person's sexuality. After all, despite what might be argued, religion is a choice; sexuality... plain and simple is.