Despite the usual physical nature of sexuality, homosexuality is based on emotional need instead of sexual need.  It involves the most intimate feelings a person can have—attachment to one’s own gender identity. Because this process of identifying and accepting our created gender assignment is vital to our emotional, physical, spiritual, and national well being, deviation from heterosexuality to homosexuality is devastating. The devastation pervades every relationship in which the homosexual man, woman, or child engages.

Abuse or feelings of rejection or alienation often create strife between parent and child at an early age sometimes, resulting in gender confusion. The gender confused child seeks to correct the growing distance between him/her and his/her same gendered parent by actions that range from total obedience to total disobedience. The emotional chaos of adolescence can cause translation of these feelings and actions into anger and bitterness toward those of the opposite sex; an overwhelming need for same sex affirmation; or even an aversion to one’s own gender assignment. As a result, gender confusion becomes defiant sexual activity (in thought or deed) and sexual satisfaction becomes the placebo for true love and acceptance.

Today we have become overwhelmingly aware that childhood problems create huge stumbling blocks for adults when they are not dealt with in a timely, God-centered way. With relational brokenness of this magnitude going on in childhood it is highly unlikely that normal healthy relationships can be achieved in adulthood by the homosexual youth without God’s guidance. Even for the gender confused person who has never acted on his sexual temptation, relationships with parents, siblings, spouses, and children will be damaged by the untreated emotional brokenness of homosexuality. America’s national health is predicated on the health of her families. Families who embrace, accept, or try to ignore homosexual sin issues are never healthy. Homosexuality is dangerous to the well being of the family and America.

Nancy Brown serves as Co-director of LifeGuard Ministries (Exodus Member Ministry) in Austin, Texas.  She also serves on the Exodus International Leadership Team as the primary writer on the Exodus Media Blog as well as a speaker and teacher.  She authored the Exodus International booklet, ”Marriage or Mirage.”  Nancy and her husband Don have been married 25 years, have five children and one grandchild.  Don and Nancy are members of First Baptist Church-Georgetown, Texas.