Translation: "This ain't America, gay rights is an oxymoron in this country. We won't hesitate to get medieval on your arse (and not in the way you might enjoy)."
Matters of the church aside, even the old line communists know exactly how unhealthy and detrimental sexual perversion is for a society...which is precisely why the KGB and CPUSA so actively encouraged it for decades during the cold war.
Americans can’t even appeal to free speech, since criticism of gays in many U.S. states (and D.C.) is treated as discriminatory. Criticism is banned by law from workplaces and, hence, newspapers.