[chriscappuccio]

Of course it can be separated. There is no inherent reason the two must be molded together. Zero.

[foldr]

As always with history, you can imagine how things might have happened differently. For example, you can imagine gay marriage having been legalized without people ever having put social pressure on others not to use homophobic language. The two things are certainly not inherently linked. But then, very few things are inherently linked in history and politics. It's not much of an argument against a certain form of activism to point out that its results could in principle have been obtained by other means.

[mbarria]

History is a pretty good argument that they can't be separated.