You really want to compare being able to call me a *** in public with arresting us 'cause we're queer? Did you go to the school of really bad analogies too?
Did it used to be socially acceptable to own people? Yes...until it wasn't.
Did it used to be socially acceptable to call black people the N-word? Yes...until it wasn't.
Did it used to be socially acceptable to express disgust in public over interracial marriages? Yes...until it wasn't.
Did it used to be socially acceptable to beat your wife or rape her in the marriage bed? Yes...until it wasn't.
I could do this all day...
See, the problem here is that you are a dishonest hack like your goofy friend Jilly and you have to smear those you disagree with, you're incapable of having any kind of an honest discussion.
Fact: I have never called anyone a '***', nor would I condone it.
Fact: I have never been in favor of 'queers' (your word, never mine) being arrested.
Fact: I have never personally expressed 'disgust' at a homosexual display of affection, but I understand how a heterosexual man would have such natural feelings in this instance.
Yet I have been accused of all three in your post above even though I've never once uttered anything even remotely close to that.
As to your examples, the glaring difference is that one would naturally feel DISGUST in all of those situations, slavery, phystical violence (which was never 'accepted' by society, it was just never talked about), calling people vile names, etc.. And because they were repressed from expressing disgust by 'society's rules' these situations were allowed to continue for years.
You are now condoning the exact same societal pressure to do the exact same thing, to keep people from expressing how they feel about something because it offends you.
I have never once condoned anyone being called a name, period. That was not the case in this instance, a heterosexual male saying 'horrible' over watching two men kiss in a romantic way is expressing his feelings about it. Again, you think that by using pressure and threats on people to shut them up is really changing how they feel about it? Get real.