Homophobes for me are worse than paedophiles. I don't believe homophobes are as bad as child molesters, but that's because a child molester is a rapist. A paedophile is just someone who happens to be sexually attracted to children, as long as they don't act on it then they haven't done anything wrong. A homophobe is somebody who is scared of others simply because they differ from them, or because they're actually the same and are to worried about what will happen if they admit it and feel as if they have to exaggerate the point. (There's an old saying we used to respond to homophobic bullying at school: "The only people gayer than homosexuals are homophobes!"
What I am saying here is that you don't choose your sexuality, like what I said earlier about bestiality. You may want to have sex with a goat, but if you don't then it doesn't matter. Someone in a homophobic nation can remain 'in the closet' and have a heterosexual relationship and 3 children, but never truly get any real sexual pleasure out of it. I also believe that most people are actually bi, but are close enough to either end of the spectrum to identify as that, so somebody could naturally be 99% straight, but still have occasional homoerotic attraction.
