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You're conflating the use of culture war positions to get out of talking about other issues with having and expressing reasonable positions on those culture war issues at all.
Is that not how it's often used? How many democrats will hate their elected officials' policies but say, "Well, at least they aren't persecuting the trans community." Or how often does a Republican disagree with their party's positions or actions but say, "Well, at least they're protecting my kids against drag queens." In my experience, both online and in real life, this happens a LOT. I'm not saying these stances are equal, but they serve as effective distractions in either case.
Yes some people with other bad positions use their support for LGBTQ stuff to distract from it. But mostly people just support LGBTQ rights because it's the right thing to do, and there isn't really anything to do for those people to do beyond continuing to be pro-tolerance and taking flack for it from the anti-tolerance side.