If the people is the Sovereign then there have to be limitations on that sovereign power lest it ends in despotic absolutism. Hence human rights protection also in, and for, democracies. Well, they are different from people around them. Human right and democracy will be seen as a game, one more majority way of legitimizing the state as a prison of peoples. Very often not even that is needed.
Homosexuals are in the early stages of that struggle.
That quest for religious autonomy was exactly the pillar on which the USA was founded. The world may become polyglot and ecumenical. But that is not the end of the story. New criteria of people-ness, like sexual orientation, may come up any time. This may be true, but we are not there yet.