Think that fags are evil?  Turns out that you might be hungering for some cock if your parents thought gayness was an illness.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120406234458.htm

Cigarettes are evil.  They give you diseases.

Correlation is not Elephant.

It's not that parents thought gayness is an illness. It's that they were authoritarian and judgmental about it. So if you are gay and raised to be a republican, you end up trying to be straight, and it causes a lot of psychic angst and inner turmoil, resulting in your being a secret cryptohomo. Just no compassion for these poor confused abuse victims from either "side" of the political wars.

"Elephant"?

It's common enough to say one can put in any random other word and the meaning is still clear.

A random other word causes it to have meaning again rather than be glossed over.

Woof.

Nasty case of pachydermatitis.

That's the elephant in the living room, all right.

>>So if you are gay and raised to be a republican, you end up trying to be straight, and it causes a lot of psychic angst and inner turmoil, resulting in your being a secret cryptohomo

After which you will be caught initiating a homosexual encounter in an airport men's room.