Dutch Uncle
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Agreed, but I'm sticking with the repressed homosexual theory. Anyone who hates gays so much is clearly raging due to repressed feelings for some reason. The most likely reason is that they are gay and, as the linked article below notes, have a deep-seated conflict between how they were raised and how they feel.
An example would be someone raised by an abusive father and a strong fire-and-brimstone mother. Heck, he may even have been sent to conversion therapy school and tortured to be straight. Not that such brainwashing works for long.
Note @EdwinA 's choice of username and @Lionfish's constant displays of penis envy.
Are Homophobic People Really Gay and Not Accepting It?
New research finds higher levels of homophobia in individuals with unacknowledged attractions to the same sex, particularly when they grew up with authoritarian parents who also held homophobic attitudes.
www.psychologytoday.com
...In these experiments, participants who reported themselves to be more heterosexual than their performance on the reaction time task indicated were most likely to react with hostility towards gay people. In other words, if a participant identified as heterosexual, but showed a reaction pattern consistent with homosexuality, they were more likely to express homophobic attitudes. This incongruence between implicit and explicit measures of sexual orientation predicted a variety of homophobic behaviors, including self-reported anti-gay attitudes, implicit hostility towards gays, endorsement of anti-gay policies, and discriminatory bias such as the assignment of harsher punishments for homosexuals.
