Remember the days of the Puritans and the witch hunts. Where anyone accused of being a witch or a homosexual w

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Remember the days of the Puritans and the witch hunts. Where anyone accused of being a witch or a homosexual would more than likely be brutally killed. Where the bible was law and the seven deadly sins were more deadly than ever. My question is how we became a country supporting gay pride. Where atheists are accepted and religion isn’t considered as important as law. I am wondering how we became this country, making this leap from killing the homosexuals to being proud. This isn’t fully true, and that many are against gay pride and many fully happy devoted religious people in America. But how did we accomplish this leap?

Answer 1

There are lots of reasons. A huge factor is the acceptance of evolution. It sets a new standard, or lack of.

Answer 2

The nature of the people who came here and founded it helped. We grow up taught that we should be free to live and believe as we please, because of the consitution. The media, education, and the church re-learning that Christianity is about grace, not living by a bunch of rules, helps. Science helps, because now we know that a lot of stuff isn't really witchcraft. Mostly tho, it's the law that was set down by those old white guys saying we can't kill or establish religion. But we still have a long way to go.

Answer 3

How we accomplished this leap is quite simple, the ACLU. Remember, "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to sit around and do nothing."
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Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Ga 4:16
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Answer 4

I am old, but not THAT old, I can't remember something that happened before my conception..

TO answer your second question, WE didn't make a leap at all. The framers of the constitution knew religion had to be reined in or we would face more and more persecution, the only way to avoid religious persecution is in a secular society that tolerates religion, not the other way around...

Answer 5

I would like to say that we learn from our past mistakes, but that isn't always true. When I lived in Germany I noticed that Euopeans didn't care if you were gay, straight, black, or white, or interracially dating. They just don't get in to other people's business like that. As for witches. The main reason women were tried at the Salem witch hunts is not because the women were witches but because the women they targeted owned property. Back then women were expected to marry, if they didn't people started looking at the oddly. And if that women's family left them any property and still wouldn't marry, townspeople would accuse them of witch craft. Mary Bradbury was a famous woman who was almost killed because of these accusations. Her husband was a captain in the navy and one of his men saved her. She is my great aunt.

Answer 6

Everyone does not agree with the witch hunts or gay pride.
somewhere in between are people saying it is morally wrong to be homosexual and morally wrong to burn them at the stake.
People who questioned the bible and tried to read it for themselves the churches burned at the stake to.
that is why it was called the dark ages. They sawed people in two and they were drawn and quartered for such things as their husband saying he caught his wife as a witch.
then guess what he got a new younger wife.
Things were not fair and when you let radical religious leaders turn people in to monsters that is what happens.
Can't we agree to disagree peacefully? and no one has to die?

Answer 7

How did we accomplish this? We grew up, science and reason were applied to life and superstitions began to take a backseat to truth. People began to realize that everyone was entitled to a "good life" full of friends, joy, and equal rights.

We aren't there yet, but we are getting there. "Love your neighbor as yourself," finally our society is putting the actual words of Jesus Christ into practice!

Answer 8

We accomplished this leap because the moral progress of society can not be stopped or reversed. The moral progress of society lead to tolerance and acceptance of gay people. It is immoral to discriminate or hate gays. That's why.

Answer 9

it is called "tolerance", "acceptance" "political correctness" "being not offensive". and the interest of protecting the "criminals rights" the good people were so busy being good and not calling out evil, that evil took hold. that what happens when you leave the barn doors open!

America is morrally corrupt, we used to be so grand, sad isn't it?

Answer 10

gotta tell ya. it wasn't the bible that was the law in those times. it was fear and one man in the church who thought he had the right to decide what people did.