Homosexuals and the Religious

I know people, religious people, who believe being gay is a mental disorder.  My cousin, Matt, believes this because it used to be categorized in the DSM as such. It was removed in 2013. He will only refer to the DSM prior to 2013. Matt will use that oh so creative saying, "in the Bible it's Adam and Eve," not "Adam and Steve." Matt believes that if you feel an attraction to the same sex, what you're feeling isn't real. Your brain is confused and it needs to be reprogrammed and all will be well.

 Matt is very religious.  He believes in God...you know, the main one. The God in the Bible along with Jesus who was conceived in some magical way where a teenager got impregnated by his God in some fairy-tale way. Matt cannot see this God, or smell him, or hear him.  He just knows God is there watching over him.

As fate would have it, Matt’s son, Ian, is gay.  Pristine, no-hair-out-of-place, walk-with-his-hands-bent-at-the-wrist-in-right-angles gay. Matt says he loves the sinner but hates the sin. Yeah, and when Matt is gone, Ian won’t be in therapy the rest of his life with daddy issues. But that’s another story.  Ian knows in his entire being that he is gay.  He feels it in his core but Matt doesn’t see the irony that his religion brings. Matt can believe in some magically being but Ian can't know who he could love. Yeah, right.