Realistically, it’s the mentality of ⁘thatࢩs the way we’ve always done it – it’s our tradition,” as much as religious prejudices.And we (industrialized countries) shouldn’t be too smug about our enlightenment. It was within my lifetime – I’m 52 – that all 50 states here in the U.S. had statutes criminalizing sexual relations between persons of the same gender, as did all of Europe.