Gays are what happened to Ireland. My theory is it is the same thing happening to Catholics and Evangelical Protestants here in the USA: younger adults in these groups cannot withstand assaults by gays on the culture. Being opposed to abortion was one thing; being opposed to “gay rights”, which keeps becoming a demand to ever more perverse things — e.g., sex change surgery for children — means you are a bigot who deserves to be despised. Support for “gay marriage” grows in every year in every group. Even Bruce/Kaitlyn Jennings has been scorned for daring to express hesitancy about redefining marriage! The Catholic Church is in de facto schism at the moment and, when you investigate what is really going on, it seems an obsession with normalizing homosexuality is the driving force. (Look up Fr. James Martin, SJ, and his new Vatican-assigned post. It is mind-boggling.)
Oh, and didn't Ireland just elect its first gay Prime Minister? This is a country where divorce was still illegal a mere 25 years ago.
Ah, the jackboots of the Lavender Mafia.