Absolutely right. I don't care what you do in private but the moment you start depriving others of life and liberty for those same actions, well...I won't weep when the axe falls on that person

it's almost confusing this has to be said. the whole point is obviously the criticism that the people in charge of jailing/killing gay people are indulging themselves. I feel you'd need to be pretty dense to not get that, yet I see it mentioned a lot.

Ha ha, had a good chuckle

The ultra-conservative authorities were probably surprised by it getting out. But nobody else.

Larry "Wide Stance" Craig

No. Can people stop blaming gay people for the people who want to kill gay people, please?

They could just be intolerant bigots. There are any number of reasons someone might hate someone, and the logic of "they must just be gay" doesn't really work for other types of bigotry and racism.

Deeeeep inside... Hrrngh

Reminds me of that meme where a cartoon character is in the fridge stuffing his mouth and the top caption reads "anti-gay preachers when no one is looking" And then the bottom caption reads "COCK"

I don't really like this- for one, it's based in the fact that homophobic people who also engage in queer behavior in secret tend to be outrageous in their hypocrisy. Thus, because it's such juicy news people tend to assume it's more common than it actually is. This is called the availability heuristic.

For another, it individually pathologizes the condition of being homophobic as being rooted in psychological reaction formation- thereby denying that homophobia is something encultured by the broader homophobic social system that we live in. The condition of being a gay homophobe isn't a psychological one but a sociological one- it's not (just) shame but a very real fear of the very real consequences which recruit them to uphold the very system that oppresses them.

On 2:

We hate what we fear. Study Finds That Homophobic People Are Actually More Likely To Be Gay

Netta Weinstein, a lecturer at the University of Essex and the study's lead author, said that these individuals "may be threatened by gays and lesbians because homosexuals remind them of similar tendencies within themselves".

There are a bunch of studies like this. I don't know if anyone has done a systematic review to bring them all together in one read.

It's important to note that there is no implication that every homophobe is secretly gay, just statistically more likely to be than less performatively toxic individuals. Some homophobes are insecure in their masculinity (or femininity) for other reasons and so hide behind a parody of what they think masculinity (or femininity) is.

The other important (and AFAIK, consistent) aspect of these studies is that they were taught to hate themselves:

"Those people who have such discrepancies, who have really a split between their unconscious attraction and what they consciously say about themselves, are more likely to come from authoritarian homes."

"If you are a parent who really believes your child should be straight, and when you use whatever means you can to convince them them that they're only good and worthy if they are, that would be very controlling and it creates a lot of conflict in the child."

Point 1: absolutely agree, however

There has been too many verified accounts of loud homophobes engaging in homosexual behavior to just brush off as a coincidence.

We should be able to talk about that without getting into dangerous territory. How? Not sure.

It's a classic cycle. Because some have gay leanings they see everything homosexual as a sinful temptation and assume it's the same for everyone else. The people must be protected against that perceived temptation so it must be forbidden. Meanwhile they fight against their own nature and succumb sometimes, which makes them repeat the cycle.