Was there non-religious or religious resistance to gay marriage before the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s?

Just curious. My mother of 55 says there was not, but I'm curious what others remember.





Take me for a walk down memory lane..Was there non-religious or religious resistance to gay marriage before the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s?
Yes, during the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment (do you know that women are not actually mentioned in the Constitution?), it was said that it would bring about same sex marriage. Well, no ERA and we still fight over same-sex marriage. That was in the late 70s, BTW.Was there non-religious or religious resistance to gay marriage before the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s?
There was huge resistance! Not just to gay marriage, but to simple, civil gay rights, as well. It was against the law for gays to have sex of any kind. It was against the law for two men to even dance together. They couldn't be teachers or preachers. Anita Bryant campaigned against gays in Florida on religious grounds in the 70's, but her campaign lost. She lost her recording contract and commerical endoresments as a result of her bigotry.
There wasn't any resistance, because nobody even thought of such a thing.





I had many gay friends in the 1980s who were politically active in gay issues, and THEY never even considered gay marriage a possibility - so there was no way that heterosexual people would think about it either.
This only became a major issue over the last 5 years or so when a gay couple decided that after they found out they couldn't get the same health and insurance benefits as a straight couple, and it was easier to adopt a child as a straight couple. Then all of a sudden they wanted to be married. Before that it didn't matter.
No, but not because there wasn't an AIDS concern; it's just because the subject really never came up. No one could even fathom it as being a possibility.
Yes. There was. There is more support for it now than there used to be.