They ARE protected already, like everyone else.
Now go zot yourself in a light socket 'til you get that straighted out in your head.
I don't recall Christ hating anyone, but maybe my catholic upbringing left out those stories.
Your "Catholic upbringing" should have taught you not to be a poofter-glorifying fool who invokes his savior to support the culture of Sodom, but then catechism ain't what it used to be. Jesus never came out for special rights for objectively disordered sinners.
The Christ also did not sup with every tax collector, he did not pick the first 12 people he came across, he vacationed at the med, he didn't let just any whore wash his feet, and he always knew when someone touched him to be healed. He was unable to hate, but he picked his people with divine wisdom and prudence.
We may be commanded to love but that doesn't mean we have to be friends with them. We are commanded to abhore sin, and homosexuality (not the person) is an abomination.