Well, you turned "general societal attitudes" in to "appease the mob", which is a very different thing. In 1986 the SCOTUS rules that consensual homosexual sex

Well, you turned "general societal attitudes" in to "appease the mob", which is a very different thing. In 1986 the SCOTUS rules that consensual homosexual sex in private could be banned (Bowers v. Hardwick). Such a ruling would be almost unthinkable today, and was already overturned in 2003 (Lawrence v. Texas). All the arguments used in 1986 and 2003 could still be used today because the constitution hasn't changed, but what is and isn't societally acceptable on this front very much has. I'm not talking about whatever was in the papers this week, or the opinion polls this year, or whatever Biden or Trump or whomever said last week, I'm talking about broad and general shifts in attitudes that take place over years and decades.