It might sound odd today to ask whether someone else’s sexuality is justified. But that’s how the long-running World Values Survey phrased it when they began decades ago. Keeping the phrasing consistent helps show how attitudes have changed, but the fact that it may sound outdated now is, in itself, a reflection of how much has changed.
Followed by an incredibly sharp rise in the years immediately following where this chart stopped.
Sadly, I’ll be surprised if this half-joke is at all wrong,
It seems to have stayed mostly stable.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/12/17/5-gender-family-and-marriage-same-sex-marriage-and-religion/
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/15/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-legalization-of-same-sex-marriage-is-good-for-society/
People dont just suddenly decide to hate gay people in 2023+.
Well, there was one homophobic voice cut short lately at least.
Sadly, I’ll bet the martyr effect will just amplify his voice.