one thing that I've noticed homophobia is the vehemence displayed... it's like pushing a person's button and getting a conditioned response.

Ake seems to gloss over lesbians and focuses his attention on gay men... more specifically, on the possibility of anal sex. Might this be the real issue for him?

My question to him and others is how can any one possibly equate banning marriage for homosexual people as a means of preventing anal sex? Or think that marriage somehow sanctions it...

But then again, phobia is an unreasoning fear of something... and we can easily see the unreasoning aspect for ourselves.