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Wouldn't CEV need to extract consensus values under a Rawlsian "veil of ignorance"?
It strikes me as very unlikely that there would be a consensus (or even majority) vote for killing gays or denying full rights to women under such a veil, because of the significant probability of ending up gay, and the more than 50% probability of being a woman. Prisons would be a lot better as well. The only reason illiberal values persist is because those who hold them know (or are confident) that they're not personally going to be victims of them.
So CEV is either going to end up very liberal, or if done without the veil of ignorance, is not going to end up coherent at all. Sorry if that's politics, the mind-killer.
Just because some despised minorities exist today, doesn't mean they will continue to exist in the future under CEV. If a big enough majority clearly wishes that "no members of that group continue to exist" (e.g. kill existing gays AND no new ones ever to be born), then the CEV may implement that, and the veil of ignorance won't change this, because you can't be ignorant about being a minority member in a future where no-one is.