Orwell wrote:
I think the "ick factor" really is the predominant motive, even among the religious. After all, how many of these right-wing evangelicals promoting a literal interpretation of Leviticus are clean-shaven and eat bacon for breakfast? There is little Scriptural support for singling out this one particular Levitican law while discarding all the rest. They just use the Bible as a cover for their bigotry so they don't have to own up to it.
Well, their interpretation of the Bible likely considers homosexuality to be one of those ongoing bads.
1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1Ti 1:10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
The same cannot be said about bacon.
Mar 7:19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
Probably shaving, as even though I can't find a verse now, I know that beardedness was actually promoted by members of the early Christian Church and continued to be by the Eastern Orthodox Church.