Forty years ago, public views about homosexuality were extremely negative in many rich countries. As the chart shows, back in 1984, one in three Dutch people believed homosexuality was “never or rarely justified”. In Spain and Great Britain, that view was held by the majority. Perhaps most strikingly, three-quarters of Americans thought the same.
I guess we’ll never know, since those numbers were combined for the answer (“never or rarely”) or the person writing this article combined the results of those two answers, idk, didn’t read the whole thing