i will remind you, however, that the issue i'm dealing with is a very mouthy (junior) rogue prosecutor that was probably acting on a homophobic bias that was so powerful that she had to excuse herself from the case, and not a decision made by an elected body.

if an elected body has no right to declare people "welcome" or "unwelcome", it would follow that any such claim made by an individual, whether in an official capacity or not, would simply be a delusional statement of absurd grandiosity.