text: Mormons are completely unwilling to be confrontational towards strangers. They might yell at their kids for being gay, but they don't have the guts to yell at a stranger for the same thing.  It's why Utah has such a reputation for passive aggressiveness. People here are raised to shame people within their social circle for being deviant, but they can't handle anyone outside their social/religious circle. Not that I'm complaining, it makes judgemental people here easy to deal with by simply ignoring them.