So often people obsess over every little difference of opinion in people who they agree with, but view everybody they disagree with as one mammoth monolith with no internal differences or shades of opinion. Maybe it's worth pointing out that reality is rarely like that.
In any case, even your article's writer talks about "moderate homosexuals." He does use the phrase, though he tries to back away from it later, so your quarrel is more with him than with me.