> society was much less religious overall and there was less reason to keep homosexuality illegal. I'm not actually sure it was an entirely religious thing.

> society was much less religious overall and there was less reason to keep homosexuality illegal. I'm not actually sure it was an entirely religious thing. It seems like it was an amendment tacked onto a bill that would protect girls from sexual exploitation by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Labouch%C3%A8re https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Labouch%C3%A8re specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labouch%C3%A8re_Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labouch%C3%A8re_Amendment The conflation of sex and religion I think its probably a mistake in this instance.