Yes, I do.
In my lifetime (I'm breathing down on 51) I've seen major changes in the way society regards people.
I recall listening to the "grownups" on my Mom's side of the family fret about JFK "turning America over to the Pope", yet last election's inclusion of Lieberman as a candidate caused barely a ripple.
I'm old enough to recall the Mike AI/Carrie/et al of an earlier generation rant about the "liberalactivistjudges" who decided that seperate but equal was a crock of shit and that American citizenship wasn't a racial classification.
The academic distinction between "cultural norms" and "progress" seems to be an artificial (or academic, which is often the same thing
one.