Because statistically more of them are Christian. If you look at, say, Gallup polls, religiousness is strongly correlated with the likelihood a person believes homosexuality is wrong. They didn't say all Christians think that, merely that it's a common thing, and it is.
but it's actually rather offensive to assume that a lack of explicitly homosexual, bisexual, or alternate-sexuality characters suggests that the author is a Christian
No, it's just accurate. Even among those who aren't actively homophobic, a lot feel uncomfortable with it or believe it's an inherent problem, because they know it isn't God's plan. Such people aren't going to write stories where homosexuals just show up to have normal lives.
I find religious people to be the ones most likely to try to ignore it - they don't find anything personally wrong with it, they wouldn't mistreat someone they found out was gay, but they just don't think it's how things are supposed to go because their religion says it's just not how things work, so when they write a world, it's just not there because it doesn't make sense to them.
(It should also be pointed out that most authors are Christian, so it's a pretty likely bet.)
I can understand it's annoying to hear blanket statements like this a lot, but this really is a pretty accurate one. People will stop associating Christian with probably homophobic as Christians become less homophobic.
PS - While I agree that people treat everything as sexual these days, it should be pointed out plenty of "romantic friendships" in the past were closeted relationships taking advantage of the fact it would be seen as nonsexual. Neither extreme is good.
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Date: 2012-01-04 06:29 pm (UTC)but it's actually rather offensive to assume that a lack of explicitly homosexual, bisexual, or alternate-sexuality characters suggests that the author is a Christian
No, it's just accurate. Even among those who aren't actively homophobic, a lot feel uncomfortable with it or believe it's an inherent problem, because they know it isn't God's plan. Such people aren't going to write stories where homosexuals just show up to have normal lives.
I find religious people to be the ones most likely to try to ignore it - they don't find anything personally wrong with it, they wouldn't mistreat someone they found out was gay, but they just don't think it's how things are supposed to go because their religion says it's just not how things work, so when they write a world, it's just not there because it doesn't make sense to them.
(It should also be pointed out that most authors are Christian, so it's a pretty likely bet.)
I can understand it's annoying to hear blanket statements like this a lot, but this really is a pretty accurate one. People will stop associating Christian with probably homophobic as Christians become less homophobic.
PS - While I agree that people treat everything as sexual these days, it should be pointed out plenty of "romantic friendships" in the past were closeted relationships taking advantage of the fact it would be seen as nonsexual. Neither extreme is good.