Not unrelated. If you notice the trend, it's usually (at least to me) the irrational public stances that gain that sort of attention, primarily because no one can come up with a rational reason for someone to care so much.
There's a rational reason to be against child violation, elderly woman murder, burglary etc. So people who make a public stance against it don't usually get labeled as closeted forms of whatever they're against (until it actually turns out they were... old drug addict friend of mine made sure he was the drug sergeant for his national guard platoon so he knew when the piss tests were coming... but that's another story).
If you make a public stance against women wearing high-heels, try to pass legislature banning the sale of high heels and the public exhibition of high heels... well, people might start to wonder why it is so important to you that you never see high heels on the street.
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