5 points
Why? Who else would come before that? Europe & North America are the most progressive places on Earth for quite a while now.
2 points
Its not that its first that is surprising, its that with one exception its only them.
2 points
Again: Who else? The rest of the world is in varying degrees of “ass backwards”, especially regarding social issues. Hell, a lot of them aren’t even moving forward but backward.
8 points
3 points
The thing is that Abrahamic religions were extremely ass backwards on this issue for the longest time. My expectation would be that countries with a majority of atheists or buddhists would never have been as ass backwards about gays in the first place.