02-26-2021, 04:57 PM
Can't discriminate based upon "actual or perceived attraction." By my reading that has a couple of effects. One would be that a business couldn't decide on its own whether or not a person is "actually gay." That's what I mean by accept. Not socially or morally or whatever, but legally.
You couldn't say "oh well I'm not discriminating against them because they are gay, because they're not actually gay, which I determined based on the fact that they are not currently married to another man."
There's also the opposite effect, which would be if a person were perceived to be gay when they aren't actually, and are discriminated against for the perceived attraction regardless of their actual attraction.
In both cases the purpose seems to be that they are eliminating possible defenses against discrimination lawsuits which would either "oh, he isn't actually gay" and/or "well, I only thought he was gay." In both cases it prevents courts from having to determine whether a person is or is not actually gay.
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