Some other examples: Miscegenation laws criminalized cohabitation and sex between mixed race couples[1], and were overturned in the United States in 1967 [2]. People were prosecuted for gay/anal sex as recently as the 1980s [3], and those laws were only finally overturned across the entire United States a decade ago[4]. And I believe within 10-20 years, same-sex couples will be able to marry across the entire US, as they are able to do in an increasing number of countries around the world. There were even ugly laws! They made it illegal for ugly people to appear in public. No joke. The last of them were overturned in the 1970s [5]. Overall, societies are expanding the moral circle, not contracting it, and governments are protecting the rights of more of their citizens than ever before. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation_laws 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Hardwick 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_laws