I think that at some level they understand how easily their own views are shaped by the people around them and by the media they consume. So they assume everyone is like that and that if you're gay or trans it means you've been manipulated into it by external forces. It's weird to me to imagine being so malleable to social pressure that you would undergo trans surgery because of it, but conservatives really think that's what's going on and it's because they are that malleable to social pressure.

Their narrative ultimately comes from the repressed conservative gay community. Conservative gay people, when they notice they have same sex attraction, do not conclude they're gay. They conclude that everyone must have these "temptations," and that gay people are just the folks that give into these temptations that everyone apparently gets. You explain away your same-sex attractions or desire to change your sex as a temptation of the Devil.

This is why seeing gay people in public doesn't have the same effect as seeing straight people, in their minds. Think about it like waves of copycat suicides. When one person jumps off a bridge, it inspires others to do the same. That's how conservatives view gay people being out. A gay person isn't someone that has a characteristic some of the population are just born with. Gay people represent those who have given in to the temptation anyone can have, and seeing gay people normalizes it and encourages others to give in.

It has the same logical coherence as "the only moral abortion is my abortion," but this is how conservatives view being gay. It comes from the lens of the repressed gay community.

I've questioned my brother in law on this as he acts this way. Instead of any epiphany on his part, I made a reference to watching black people on tv not making a white person black which led him to come up with the dumbest and racist take of all black people having some frontal lobe defect? I have zero clue where he came up with this but I suspect whatever braindead source for his anti gay rhetoric is also pushing the anti non white rhetoric. He also argued from the point of someone who was regurgitating information he half understood instead of a point he'd actually thought about

Not even that far. It's about "purity". Heterosexuality, manliness, virginity, whatever they associated with purity is extremely fragile and mere mention of any "impurity" may sully it, because the more pure you are the more bragging rights you have.

In islamist circles for example, some are obsessed with drinking from cups no alcohol has touched.

Usually because the worst anti gay of them are indeed tempted because they're closet gay and think the rest of humanity feels the same way.

Just like thier daddy and grad daddy. Like a MAN!

trans + gay.

Do kids bounce when dropped?

wow! my coal mines use WAY more children than that, so this is a huge efficiency boost for me! /j

the moral compass has been deflected by the electromagnetic field in the wires. it will return to pointing north with sufficient distance from the device

Two men kissing is not porn

You're right. Nobody mentioned anything constituting "porn" though - I think just "content" or "representation" is a better word choice.