Orientation

    Hijacking words for different meanings has been rapidly happening in the last quarter century.   Words are not evolving or changing, just being completely repurposed for advertising soundbites or teenage angst.  Whatever the reason, it does not change the word, only how "some" people perceive it.
   Hot is a temperature that can be good for cooking, bad for health and something small children are told not to touch.  Ten years later, hot is what you are if you dress like a whore in middle school or in those same clothes as a senior citizen on late night television.
  Orientation was first an outdoor term used to describe placement of one thing in relation to another.  Then learning how to find your way in the world became orienteering.  Orientation as training for a new path was adopted in the work world to mean teaching new employees the rules and the location of things in their work area.
  And then in 1990s, the word was hijacked to sexual orientation for use by then President Bill Clinton in an executive order to force employers in any federal contract not to discriminate based on sexual "orientation".  
  No where in the previous uses of orientation did sex have anything to do with it.  And biologically it does not have anything to do with sex.

  I have often wondered why some wordsmith of an attorney has not used the fact that the statement of sexual orientation is neither based in law, defined legally to only cover the three most publicized sexual deviations from nature - those being homosexual, lesbian and transgender to get the whole thing thrown out.
  Orientation like many other words has changed in the Merriam Webster Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orientation?show=0&t=1404995595, since the 1990's because of current usage.  Check out an older dictionary at your local library and see the difference. Only dictionaries are updated constantly and do not show who wrote or when the entry with new information so what it means today may change tomorrow.
   Thinking legally, if there is no law and no legal definition so stated in federal law that defines orientation then 2 a is just as valid as 2 b.