# Damn it! (yet another gay marriage rant) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 19, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-yet-another-gay-marriage-rant/269950 "2004-10-19T01:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-yet-another-gay-marriage-rant/269950/32 "2004-10-20T00:01:34Z")
> [@](#): > > The city of Cincinnati and its various boards and commissions may not enact, adopt, enforce or administer any ordinance, regulation, rule or policy which provides that homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation, status, conduct, or relationship constitutes, entitles, or otherwise provides a person with the basis to have any claim of minority or protected status, quota preference or other preferential treatment. This provision of the city charter shall in all respects be self-executing. Any ordinance, regulation, rule or policy enacted before this amendment is adopted that violates the foregoing prohibition shall be null and void and of no force or effect. I guess someone needs to ask this question, and it might as well be me. Leaving all references to religion out (as it should be), why is this provision such a bad thing? Why should anyone receive special treatment or favoritism or preferential treatment simply because they choose to engage in deviant sexual practices? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-yet-another-gay-marriage-rant/269950)._