  Mainstreaming Homosexuality by Mark Tooley  Mainstreaming
Homosexuality  by Mark Tooley  In his State of the Union address
early this year, President Clinton asked Congress to ratify the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would ban
“discrimination” based on sexual orientation. Sexual
“preference” would join the litany of other legally protected
minority categories based on race, gender, age, religion, or
physical disability. “Sexual minorities,” no less than ethnic or
racial minorities, would become a new federally protected class
entitled to their fair share of societal sanction and subsidy.
The President, by executive decree, has already banned
discrimination based on sexual orientation among the federal
government’s 2.9 million civil servants. In a House of
Representatives vote last year, 63 Republicans joined 189
Democrats in refusing to overturn the federal order.  At least
ten states have adopted ENDA-type legislation, as have numerous
city governments.  Rhetoric among ENDA’s supporters