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don't care all that much about it either.

It's not just a bullshit wedge issue since it's acceptance would be a major cultural change, but I've been seeing a massive shift toward acceptance of homosexuality over the years in the circles I'm in.

I relate it to racial issues, where there has also been a massive shift from overt racism. We're not there yet, and we may never be fully there, where there is a good comfort level with people "not like us" but we are fast moving in that direction-- not fast enough, perhaps, but still moving.

It took us 300 years to get rid of slavery and another 100 years to get rid of official racism and Jim Crow laws. It's only been in the last 40 years or so that overt racism has become a thing of shame. We've been working on homophobia for less than that, and look how far we've gotten. Not far enough in either case, of course, but there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel, and homophobia is screaming with it's dying breath.