If more churches actually followed what Christ taught they'd all have signs like this...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. No there wasn't...

Let's be honest, being gay in the 1940s or 1950s would have been a miserable existence. Being a mixed-race couple in the 1950's or 1960's could have been somewhere between illegal and dangerous, depending on where you lived. Even being female wasn't a day at the beach.

I know. Before you respond, I know that being any of those three things isn't exactly easy even today.

But my point is that there was no "Golden Age" of tolerance in this country that occurred somewhere in our dimly-lit past. As a society, we're becoming more open and tolerant every day, perhaps not as quickly as some of us would like, but we're a damned sight better than we used to be.