Also, they’re fed this twisted idea that somehow it’s “love” to show hatred to someone, that they think that by scorning people, denouncing them, acting with hatred. . .that they’re somehow “loving” them, because they’re indoctrinated into a profound fear of hellfire and damnation, and are absolutely sure the people they hate are going to hell, so they delude themselves into thinking it’s some kind of love to scorn them, thinking that this will make them conform to the image of God they’ve crafted in their own image.
They think that somehow it’s Holy to hate, just as long as they can convince themselves they’re doing it to save someone’s soul.
They’re sure that people choose to be LBGT, because they supposedly hate God. . .and they can simply just choose Jesus instead and magically not be LBGT and thus they’re “saved”. . .and they think the best way to do this is to act with absolute fear and hatred towards them, thinking they can scare and intimidate people into being cis-het.
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
~Steven Weinberg
This isn’t even remotely true. “Good” people can do “evil” things for all sorts of reasons: trauma, substance abuse, sheer accident, or being lied to or misled about the outcomes of their actions. And yes, for that last one, religion can be a cause for being misled–but so can politics, philosophy, general misinformation, etc. And all of this is assuming people and/or actions can easily be divided into “good” and “evil” in the first place.