@beau:
Is that a control thing? If they thing they are going to heaven and gay people will go to hell, why bother? we wont meet anyway.
You know what? Interestingly, your question is generalizing stuff. Because truthfully, only hopeless fanatics who do NOT have proper and deep knowledge about their own religion that would discriminate, or as you say, 'bother so much' about LGBT. Meaning, not ALL religious people do that, only those who have SHALLOW understanding to their beliefs.
Since they have shallow knowledge, they tend to exaggerate themselves by claiming as God's soldier, to right the wrong, and bla bla bla. I was raised in a Christian family, but as I grew up, I began to learn about the Bible on my own level of understandings. In a, what I called as non-biased view. And guess what the whole point of Bible? "LOVE". Loving others, NOT hating, and never try to be a judge to others. It's clear that many so-called 'religious fanatics' aren't practicing this, because discriminating others is clearly against the basic fundamental of Christ's teaching. In fact, it's one of the 7 Deadly Sins, which do not relate at all to Christianity. So logically speaking, they can't really be categorized as religious people. Perhaps, bigots? fakes?
Good example of this? Pope Francis. He's the head of Vatican, and have spoken about how it is WRONG and sinful to discriminate others, including LGBT. In fact, he personally commanded those who do or did, to apologize not just to God, but also to the people they have hurt. I'm not pro Pope Francis, but it's clear that he's among those (sadly, probably the few) who understands the teaching of the Bible at a cellular level. Which is why, I have to disagree on the notion that 'religious people' tend to hate LGBT. That's generalizing. It's like calling all soldiers to be evil because they can carry a gun, or every White Americans are racist because some do, or every dogs are dirty just because some of them are strays in the wild. Whereas we all know, that's never the case. I considered myself as partially religious, and I try my best not to hate, because it's a SIN. Especially to LGBT people, when in fact I'm one of them. LOL. So just because some part of the religious community are taking the offensive and anarchist approach to things, doesn't mean that everyone is like that.
Hope that helps clear things up…
PS: Not just Christian. I've had discussions with those whose beliefs are Hinduism, Buddhism, and Moslem, and the fundamental basis of their religions are more or less the same. Some practices (like free sex) are indeed considered a sin to them, but they all agree that judging and cornering people who are different (read: HATING) is also considered as one of the biggest sin of all.