Barbara's views on same gender attraction
I do have an article at home about male fish swimming in polluted waters will exhibit female mating behaviors. Maybe something in our polluted environment predisposes individuals to gender misidentification. However, we are all in this polluted environment and it doesn't seem to affect all of us that way, so I do not know. It is something to think about.
I think also as a youth goes through puberty and often engages in some sort of sexual exploration, he/she may feel more at ease with others of the same gender. This again is tied in with how one perceives oneself and the self-confidence or lack of it one has.
Trevor Southerly, an artist, who was married, had children and divorced to follow his same gender attraction is the individual featured on the documentary. I doubt anyone who does this finds happiness. Even if they find their “soul-mate”, they still of all of the issues of relationship which I don't know are any harder or easier with others of the same gender or opposite gender. I really feel that what we call love is not a feeling that happens to people, it is not something you fall into. Those strong feelings are hormonal and can wane even in cases where they are initially very strong. Love is what one does in the relationship. Love is a commandment to be kept. It requires all of the characteristics Paul talks about in defining charity: Long-suffering, seeking not her own, is not easily provoked, is kind, endureth all things, etc.
A very readable book is written by Carolynn Pearson. She is LDS and wrote poems which are illustrated interestingly enough by Trevor Southerly. She married a returned missionary, Gerald Pearson and four children later, learned he was gay and had been even before their marriage. They divorced, he sought his soul-mate, eventually contracted AIDS and died with his mother and ex-wife holding his hands. The book is called “Good-bye, I love you.”
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