It's interesting that views of gay marriage seem to be progressing much, much faster than views on interracial marriage, which was still opposed by about half the country into the early 1990s. I wonder why that is.
The scars of racism run much deeper than homophobia in American history (in fact, homosexuality was fairly accepted until the Victorian era).
This is for the most part true. Even the Catholic Church has only really doubled down, in the sense of giving any emphasis to the subject beyond political contingencies like the perceived necessity to smear Abdurrahman III, within the past century or so. Then again, the subject's only been visibly constructed in its present identitarian form within the last century or so in the first place, so that's hardly to the outright credit of the Church in previous ages.
