re: Fayetteville's Anti-Discrimination Ordinance... repealed.

The EEOC has interpreted some cases as being "sex discrimination" as in the case of a man marrying another man and anger at that by a superior led to the man's firing. There are no explicit protections for LGBT people in title VII of the Civil Rights Act. You can legally fire someone for being gay, and tell them that, and it is not illegal.

There are no Fair Housing protections for LGBT people.

The law attempts to bridge the gap in existing federal law to give people explicit protection based on their sexual orientation, period.

Those are not special protections.

And there is no need for criminal law protections for ethnic minorities against discrimination because those categories are explicitly protected by Title VII of the CRA and civil remedies exist. In other words, you can claim civil rights violations under title VII and sue.

There are no such explicit protections for LGBT persons in federal law.