Sexual orientation and gender identity are biologically determined and are unique to the individual. Politics, race, religion, etc have nothing to do with it.
The rep is gay. Rather than embrace who and what he is, his upbringing, religious indoctrination, and political ambitions led him to not only lie to everyone around him, but to inflict harm on other LGBT people through the law and his actions.
How unhappy this guy must have been, hiding who he is, lying to everyone, harming people just like him. And how sad that the culture around him encouraged that lying and harm. When all he had to do was be who he was, and be honest, and it all would have been OK.
Freud called it "Reaction Formation" and while I don't agree with most of his views on human psychology, unfortunately this is one defense mechanism we see quite often.
I have absolutely no sympathy for this guy. I am gay and was raised in an anti-gay community, religion, and family and yet I never persecuted or demeaned other gay people.
I have noticed throughout my life there just don't seem to be any straight men obsessed with gay men. All gay bashers, sooner or later, turn out to be as gay as a handbag full of rainbows.
Spencer Kimball inveighed against homosexuality and taught that masturbation would bring out gay tendencies. Then he got married (to a woman) and had a lousy marriage. . .
A couple of reasons. First, his son's biography of SW hints at a distant relationship both emotionally and, for extended periods of time, geographically. There's almost nothing to suggest intimacy after the early years. Second, there have long been rumors that the marriage was troubled.
The evidence isn't conclusive (it rarely is in such situations) but it is consistent. And it would make sense if Kimball was not naturally comfortable with women, which I believe was the case.