Gender Roles/Same-sex Attraction

This week in class we discussed different gender roles in families and how they impact them.  But what really hit me, what really impressed me was same-sex attraction.  I'm one that strays away from that topic real quickly.  It makes me uncomfortable.  It makes me feel sick. I never know what to do or say to people that are in that boat.  But the preparation for Friday's class really helped me see how homosexuals might become homosexuals.

We watched an interview of our Family Relations Professor, Professor Williams.  In this interview he talked through a few different ways, psychosocial ways, that people might come to the conclusion that they are gay/lesbian.  One way in particular stood out to me. He used the example of men becoming gay.  Their whole lives they might feel a little different than the rest of the boys, so they naturally become closer to girls.  This eliminates the sense of mystery and attraction in the opposite sex. Because of this, they become interested in boys, it doesn't start as anything sexual, but strictly intimacy.  They want to know what it's like to be one of the boys, so they ultimately believe they're gay.  I thought that was very interesting. 

A thought came up in Friday's class discussion that girls who have distant fathers, find attention from other men, usually not the best men either.  But anyway, she said, "I don't see how it's any different for a young man whose father is distant, they yearn for that male attention, so they'll seek it."  I've never thought of homosexuality in these terms until now.  It's really opened my mind and my heart to people that suffer through this.

One more thing to close, in the interview we watched they said that for every gay couple there are two women who don't get the opportunity to marry and have children.  They proceeded to say what a powerful move of the adversary.  Satan is always trying to ultimately ruin families, because the family is central to the Creator's plan.  I wonder what would happen if more people heard of this approach as to why gay/lesbian couples feel the way they do.