If one talks to the man on the street about social stuff, the discussion of things involving gays will spark the use of the word evolving. They might say evolved. This is used as a means to explain how America or a specific group changed their minds about gays. This has a positive connotation. It is never that they evolved negatively. This is compartmentalized because the same man on the street will say America is going to hell in a handbasket the next minute. There was no evolution. This was the work of the rich and academia to push acceptance, tolerance and now glorification.