Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.

I didn't get it until I started getting serious about weight loss (doing well btw :)) you develop a raw anger at people eating food that you can't enjoy. Of course I don't say anything. It's like that expression

If you are a liberal vegetarian you do not eat meat

If you are a conservative vegetarian no one gets to eat meat except for you.

You know, for one reason or another I won't bother you with I'm still in the WhatsApp group of my childhood friends.

They're a bunch of dicks, and tbh were I to meet them today I'd avoid them like the plague, but a couple of people in there are actual friends, so I stick around.

Anyway, the humour in the chat is that of many WhatsApp groups, jokes about women, sex and so on.

Boomers humour, so to speak, even though we're all X-Gen.

Sadly, 80% are jokes about gays, which can get fairly nasty at times.

A couple of weeks ago I actually said "hey, how come you guys always joke about gays and trans? Like, all the time? You know who does that? Closeted homosexuals".

Then I linked a few articles of random gay-bashing Republicans who were caught fiddling kids and were forced to admitting being gay.

"Rings a bell?"

I haven't seen a gay joke in the group since.

I think a mix of religion and being brought up with old-school morality. I'm a conservative who has no problems with homosexuals, in fact HIV/AIDS is one of the causes I really get behind because the history of it fascinates me (currently reading And The Band Played On, it's great).

Whenever I see homophobia or erroneous beliefs about them I try and correct them when I can.