I agree somewhat about it being a separate issue. But failing to understand that people aren't really that tolerant of gays is a losing proposition.
Nonsense.
Most folks don't care or waste their time caring about it up.
Support for same-sex marriage has dropped among Republicans over the past few years.
Has it really? Sincere question since I found three different polls done in the last year that show anything from 41% (low) to 56% (high) support for it. So I'm not completely sold on that, either.
I suspect it's because people are feeling more open about their bigotry.
I suspect it's because the polls are all over the place.
Like the rise of white nationalism. It's more acceptable to be intolerrant.
I seriously doubt much has changed at all. Anywhere. It's just people are more aware of it NOW than previously because of the ubiquitous phone. I doubt there's actually that much higher of a percentage of white nationalists than there were Klansmen in the 30s. It's just they've been able to find each other and make more noise. GENERALLY speaking society has become more tolerant of one another over the last 150 years, even if a lot of whites know fewer blacks than they'll see in the stands at a Utah Jazz game.
It's just like what we now call "mass shootings." CNN would have you think an epidemic of mass shootings has put us all at risk, so much so they'll keep a list. The problem, however, is that their rather convenient definition of a "mass shooting" puts together any shooting where some nut kills three coworkers (or buddies at a poker game) with planned attacks like Columbine, the Luby's massacre, or the McDonald's massacre.
But go combing through newspapers in the 1970s, and you'll find about ten a month using that definition. It's just that prior to CNN, the Internet, and the phone, if a "mass shooting" of four people happened in Brewster, Washington, I had no way of hearing about it down in Phenix City, Alabama.
