Is this legal?

[hue]

ethically speaking, i believe any privately owned company should have the right to
choose their own path, even if it's a bigoted one, just as i have the right to choose
my own path. if i sold ice cream and believed chocolate to be evil, despite a vendor's
desire for me to sell his product, i'd have the right to sell only vanilla. the check and
balance here is my loss of business with the chocolate loving world, plus any backlash
of public outcry at my chocolate insensitivy.

this publisher has lost any income they would have recieved from LBGT community and
specifically from the sale of your book.

i imagine there are plenty of publishers who would be open to such topics.

in a side note, when i worked in texas as a social worker (big conservative Christian influence
there), our agency had no problem placing children for adoption to same-gender couples
as long as they met our other requirements. it wasn't more than 10 years ago that texas
was prosecuting people under sodomy laws. now they have openly Gay and Lesbian
state employees.

the world, it is a'changin'!