Who could have suspected?

From Reggie's Non-Bottle Victorian Trade Cards.

ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2012) — Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates.

The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual orientation play in the formation of intense and visceral fear of homosexuals, including self-reported homophobic attitudes, discriminatory bias, implicit hostility towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay policies. Conducted by a team from the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and the University of California in Santa Barbara, the research will be published the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (Via Balloon Juice)

Wait, I know who could have suspected! Anybody who was paying attention! But there's one kind of evidence that doesn't get enough attention, and that's the tortured insistence on the part of the homophobe (or sodomechthriac, as I have recommended calling it) that sexual orientation is a choice:

Because schools fail to warn children of the dangers of homosexuality, and because it is taught that homosexuality is not only "normal" but "healthy" as well, homosexuality starts to seem like a good choice to young school children. To supplement this many schools give homosexuals preferential treatment, for instance protecting a homosexual student from teasing in cases where they would not protect a heterosexual student. Homosexuals are also given exclusive clubs that have the goal of recruiting additional students to homosexuality.^[11]

These are just some of ways that students are tricked into mistakenly thinking that homosexuality is a desirable lifestyle. As people get older and study the word of God they become less susceptible to being misled like this. This is the reason the homosexual agenda targets school children for recruitment into homosexuality. (Conservapedia)

They know it must be a choice because it's a choice they've made, or hope they have, with all the help they could get from peeing with Dad and studying God's word and whatever else it takes.

Because there is no hideous Illuminati society of a Homosexual Agenda (unless you count the Roman Catholic priesthood—though I for one am pretty sure it's not the priests who recognize themselves as gay but the sodomechthriacs that rape altar boys), but there is a struggle that these men are telling us about, and that we learn about from the tragicomic stories of Larry Craig and Ted Haggard, and so on, all the way back to M. de Charlus (who terrified little Marcel with his pitiless contempt for any kind of male gentleness or softness). The chaos they fear will be released if "everyone just does whatever they want" is the chaos that would come if they gave in to their own desires; God, with the memory of Dad's penis, is the only thing that's keeping them from running out and sodomizing everything they see, right down to Rick Santorum's dog. And when they say that "marriage is threatened" it's their own marriages they have in mind. And always they have to keep asking themselves: If it isn't a choice, than what am I?