Poor, poor straight people, the world is so mean to them

A Christianist legal group that routinely opposes gay rights litigation is relying on gay rights court decisions to support its claim that  requiring them not to discriminate against gay people represses their Christianist values:

The controversy also raises questions about who needs protection. CLS lawyer Michael W. McConnell, a former federal judge and director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, likens the underdog status of Christian groups at liberal law schools such as Hastings to the way gay rights groups might have felt on a Southern campus years ago.

"One of the things I find kind of pleasantly ironic about the briefing in this case is we find ourselves relying on about a dozen cases that involve gay rights groups in universities," said McConnell, who was appointed as an appellate judge by President George W. Bush.