U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Colorado’s Constitutional Amendment Repudiating Preferential Treatment of Homosexuals

We cannot accept the view that Amendment 2's prohibition on specific legal protection does no more than deprive homosexuals of special rights. To the contrary, the amendment imposes a special disability upon those persons alone. Homosexuals are forbidden the safeguards that others enjoy or may seek without constraint. Romer v. Evans, U.S. Supreme Court (1996) (Majority opinion). The Court's majority opinion contains grim, disapproving hints that Coloradans have been guilty of "animus" or...