Majority of Americans support gay rights over religious freedom bills

[DeistPaladin]

A constant analogy to the 1960s civil rights movement is made for each new special group. But it's weak. Blacks as a visible minority don't enjoy the option of concealing their status. Unlike for blacks, no history of chattel slavery or Jim Crow attends the other groups, whose members have generally experienced little difficulty in voting and securing employment, housing, or consumer essentials. 

Our constitution in section 1 of the 14th amendment guarantees equal protection under the law for all American citizens. It doesn't make any special requirement that said citizens must have a history of chattel slavery or oppression under Jim Crow laws. Neither does it require that said citizens must be identifiable visually as a minority group. Neither does it suggest that said citizens must have experienced difficulty in voting, securing employment, finding housing or acquiring other consumer essentials. It only says that American citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law. 

Every civil rights struggle is different. Women have endured countless eons of second class citizenship. Jews suffered under nearly 2,000 years of Christian pogroms culminating in the Nazi holocaust. African-Americans were enslaved and then subjected to Jim Crow. There is no special contest for what group has suffered most uniquely. What's important is that we strive to create a more just and fair society. 

Although it has been necessary to ban certain kinds of discrimination, we've never defined prejudice itself as a wrong, only that its absence is a virtue.

What?

Adam & Steve are welcome to marry if they want. They should have no trouble finding a cake. I'm a retired boomer and not planning to die too soon.

I'm not hoping for your death. I'm only hoping for the death of your prejudice. Failing that, its political irrelevancy.