Evidently you know nothing of America before the 1960s, it was a great place and getting stronger and better all the time, and it was so strictly socially conservative that you wouldn’t recognize it.
Today America is in decline and has become a very unpleasant place to live and raise families in for many Americans, because we got away from that social conservatism and we have become more European.
We were far beyond what you can probably imagine as being a “nanny” state, yet people were freer and happier and our communities and society thrived.
Yeah, the niggers weren't so uppity back then.
we got away from that social conservatism
On a personal level, yes. I'm fairly socially conservative myself, I just don't believe in enforcing that upon others through laws. Whatever happened to shunning? That was the right way to deal with these people. We used to have the concept of the social outcast, but now everything is supposedly acceptible. This isn't a law thing, it's how society changed. The law did help though, in pushing the power of the federal government down in to the community. These days a good shunning would probably be called a federal rights violation.