Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which theyβve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive
This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go βso youβre really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic πβ like yeah
There's a model of culture that I like to cite for this idea, called the Iceberg Model:
The LGBT youth (and young atheists, too) will cut off the stuff "above the water" but not really examine the stuff down below that line that they have as part of their upbringing.
So you get young LGBT people making comments like OP cited, or young atheists acting with an Evangelical persecution complex, and going, "Don't call me Culturally Christian!"
This is the sort of thing I keep talking about when Iβm saying identity is not the same as ideology.
Who you identify as (who you are) says absolutely nothing about what you believe (your ideology).Β
