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Chesterton explains some of this in his essays. Some of it is the general bigotry of his circle, some of it isn't casual at all, and some of it is compassionate understanding. When the three things get mixed together by being looked at using categories, I think the compassionate man gets lost a bit. I admit I wasn't using attitudes to hommosexuality to measure this, but attitudes to Judaism. I rahter suspect the three elements would be there when looking for potential homophobia (because they seem to typify the way he thought) but that they would be in different propertions. The thing he is most guilty of is not looking beneath the surface of anything he regarded as alien. He only properly reconciled contradictions when they moved clearly into his strongly religious gaze, perhaps. The conradictions he wrote weren't real contradictions - merely puzzles.