Actual prevention of homosexuals from associating, from buying homes, from working and earning, from traveling and expressing themselves, is not at risk. No one is threatening them in those ways. Rather, the banner of “gay rights” is being used by the atheist Left wing to give a veneer of moral outrage to their campaign to make holders of traditional religious beliefs second class citizens in America, in the same way that Jews and Christians were dhimmi in historical Muslim countries. The real object of the campaign is to suppress the expression of religious views in public and on issues of public policy.