Why do some staright people behave in such evil ways toward gay people

[karknema]

1) Low intelligence
2) Mental lack of empathetic reasoning capabilities
3) A religious or deeply homophobic upbringing
4) Lack of psychological and scientific understanding (about the causes of homophobia)
5) being crazy
6) being religious (which some might argue is the same as "e)".
7) In men, sexist beliefs

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[Annellide]

4) Lack of psychological and scientific understanding (about the causes of homophobia)...

[Parker]

What's "e)" ?

none of the above

[wavedy]

A psychologist once said that ppl who bash gays and are bad to them are themselves worried that they too are gay, it scares them to death.