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Prof. Slater — In response to your comment questioning whether a perceived distinction between racial and sexual-orientation discrimination can be invoked in a freedom-of-association defense, as opposed to an equal protection challenge to alaw:

The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole! 2010

To be sure, there is substantial circuit court authority applying rational basis review to sexual-orientation classifications.

Obama: DOMA Unconstitutional, DOJ Should Stop Defending In Court 2011

The president and the attorney general came to this conclusion after determining that gays and lesbians deserved a higher level of scrutiny in two new lawsuits challenging DOMA, which were filed in jurisdictions "without precedent on whether sexual-orientation classifications are subject to rational basis review or whether they must satisfy some form of heightened scrutiny."

Jonathan Capehart: Obama's historic action against DOMA 2011

These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals, perhaps Homo sapiens included, despite the sexual-orientation boundaries most people take for granted.

ID/Evolution 2009

The increase is too big to be explained by a sudden jump in coupling among gay people, said Gary Gates, a scholar at the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, a think tank on sexual-orientation policy.

Number of Self-Identified Gay Couples Surges Vauhini Vara 2011

In particular, in November 2011, plaintiffs filed two new lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA in jurisdictions without precedent on whether sexual-orientation classifications are subject to rational basis review or whether they must satisfy some form of heightened scrutiny.

Obama: DOMA Unconstitutional, DOJ Should Stop Defending In Court 2011

The president and the attorney general came to this conclusion after determining that gays and lesbians deserved a higher level of scrutiny in two new lawsuits challenging DOMA, which were filed in jurisdictions "without precedent on whether sexual-orientation classifications are subject to rational basis review or whether they must satisfy some form of heightened scrutiny."

Obama's historic action against DOMA 2011

However, some other male writers told stories about how they had been discriminated against, and the reports also extended to sexual-orientation bias and any other slant you might imagine.

Going Viral : Bev Vincent 2009

Laws making it illegal for private parties to discriminate (on the basis of race, gender, age, ethnicity, religion or sexual-orientation) against other private parties, in employment or accommodations?

Surveying on the Cheap: Role-Playing an Average American, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It is disgraceful that there are so few religion-focussed and sexual-orientation associations for police officers.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010