She's never been around gay people(that she knows of), and being from Alabama and I assume a church going girl, she has probably heard nothing good about them. When it's beat in your head from birth how bad gay people are, it's kind of a shock when you meet one and realize they are just normal people. I also live in Alabama and most people here are very homophobic and think all gay people want to hit on them(who told them they were all that?).