I certainly would agree with that, hate is incredibly strong affect, besides love I cant think of any other emotional state which would move human beings quite the same. Similarly a phobic response is a strong and abnormal response to something too. No one would, usually, assume that someone who has a political objection to redistribution of wealth or benefits being paid has a phobic aversion to destitute individuals or people of a lower social class for instance. I think there's also something generally wrong with doing so, a lot of everyday opinion and behaviour is pathologised and I think that's part of a closing of peoples minds which I think is unhealthy. Totally in keeping with the sort of self-imposition or self-censor Orwell talked about being operative in totalitarian societies or movements.
The elites adoption of homosexuality as a political cause is interesting to speculate as to why, but ultimately I suspect it as acceptable to them because "equality as uniformity" or "equality as sameness" is the most basic and reductive version of equality, if this conception of equality is the only conception the equality as redistribution of wealthy or complex equality which requires diversity, difference and something more than "like treatment" wont creep in and threaten things. In terms of fiscal consequences it doesnt mean or carry much "threat".
Many of the detractors or conscientious objectors to political homosexuality are also ethical or cultural camps which are not easy to co-opt into fiscal conservatism, anyone who is going to express opinions which will deprive them of earnings, employment, business ownership and income revenue because they are compelled by conscience or honesty to do so are rarer and rarer but not that far removed from the people who at another time and in another context organised trade unions, joined in agitation and challenged servility and conformity to the power of money.
