Longing for the 'Good Old Days'? Really?

After the recent Supreme Court decision regarding Marriage Equality was announced, I read one person's lament regarding the ensuing furor over right and wrong which included the words (paraphrased here), "I'm longing for the good old days when everybody just got along." I have been pondering on that statement for nearly a week now and this is what I am wondering:
Which good old days when 'everybody just got along'?
The days when the Europeans forcibly took control of Native American lands?
The days when the American government in the name of progress slaughtered the Native American peoples and drove the rest onto reservations?
The days when the slavery of people of color was condoned by both the Bible and the Church which thumped the Bible?
The days when separate meant equal?
The days when women couldn't vote, much less hold office?
The days when a woman wouldn't be found in a pulpit, much less leading the Board or Consistory of a congregation?
The days when women taught Sunday School, put on the dinners, took care of the children, and made sure they made it to school, but were not allowed to sit at the table with the males of the family?
The days when people of color had no or limited voting rights?
The days when more than 50% of marriages made it more than 10 years?
The days when . . . . .
Well, I think you get the idea. 
I believe we have come to juncture in the church and in the land when the manner in which we have lived, interpreted scriptures and established traditions will no longer 'just be accepted'.
Today the Church must interpret scripture from the context in which that scripture was written, not trying to make the parts fit which we want to hide behind or support our prejudices and bias. 
Today we have to understand that when we rely on the government to do everything for us and to judge every matter between us the government will do what is ultimately in the best interest of those in government.
Today people in our world community will no longer stand idly by allowing one ethnicity, color, race, nationality or creed to have a corner on ownership of the world or its' resources.
Today we are rapidly becoming aware 'that which once was' no longer is faithful, just, equitable, fair or bears the full weight of God's love shown to us in Jesus.
Today we have to do the hard work of discernment regarding such things as ISIS, Ferguson, racial equality, sexual understandings, the oil pipeline of railroad cars and pipes which traverse our communities and pollute our air and water, our stewardship of the earth, global warming, our care for space and the debris we leave in it, and so much more.
Today, each moment requires more of us than our ancestors could ever have imagined possible . . . and the cost of what is required far exceeds anything they or we could have anticipated back 'in the good old days'. 
You want everyone to just get along? Trying being faithful to God and loving as you are loved in the modern era . . . without exception, as did Christ.
Not everything in the world is determined by what makes you or me comfortable or by what allows us to go on our merry way without doing the hard work of discerning justice in this generation. What once was no longer is, which is precisely why God sent the Son to show us Grace and sends the Spirit to guide us in Mercy. 
I remember when . . . Dad and Mom used to make homemade ice cream very regularly throughout the Summer months . . . and there were 'Sunset Laws' on the books in several of the towns near where I grew up. Some things I remember more fondly than others and those are the things I continue to live and cherish today, like making homemade ice cream very regularly throughout the Summer months. Other things have, thankfully, disappeared, but not without great conflict, angst and fear . . . like sunset laws. 
I pray that when we long for the past we name the past for what it really was, choosing to claim for today only that which builds us up together in community, not treasuring and clinging to that which discriminates, separates and condemns.
For such as this, we each must make our choices. Choose well. Choose in faith. Choose to live in God's new age for you.