Stop. You don't need, you should not search for excuses or explanations of people being intolerant and homophobic.
Don't spend your efforts to find excuses or explanations for people being homophobic. Hold them accountable instead.
Understanding why someone thinks the way they think is essential to know how to confront them. If the only thing you do is pointing to them and saying they are wrong, you will never change their way of thinking. Not even trying to understand them is just being as intolerant as they are. We should never be intolerant to anything other then intolerance itself.
I'm not saying you should accept their idea. I'm not saying you should agree with them. I'm not saying they are right.
Homophobia is wrong, really bad and must always be condemned, yes. There are many ways to do that, and all of them benefits of knowing how and why people end up thinking the way they think.
If I punch someone gratuitously, are you going to analyze the circumstances, my motivations, and present to others an explanation of why, even though you don't agree with it, I have my own reasons to assault someone ?
Violence is wrong, definitely. Problem is, how can we know why you punched? We don't know you, we don't know the person you punched. So we need to investigate, we need to understand why that happened. Knowing the circumstances and motivations we can properly judge the action and come up with a suitable punishment and education program so that it doesn't happen again.
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