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“I will not permit considerations of gender, race, religion, age, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, or social standing to influence my duty of care.”

I'm not sure where this guy is getting the idea that this would violate a lawyer's 1st Amendment rights. All this provision says is that you will put in the same professional effort for a gay client as you would a straight client. Unless there is some provision in the AZ ethical rules or AZ law that requires you to take on gay clients, there is nothing here that would force you to have gay clients to begin with. But, if you take a gay client on in a drunk driving case or whatever, you can't give them a lower level of service due to their sexual orientation.

I agree with your assessment up to a point - but the attempt to put “gay” in the same category as gender, race, etc. is an attempt to make it of equal importance. Would it be different if they put “pedophile” there or “people with blonde hair”? Putting it on the list makes it stand out in a way that is unnecessary for the application of professional effort.