Gender Roles and Same Sex Attraction

This week in Family relations we mainly talked about gender roles. This was interesting to me because I thought everyone did the same roles! Males did the hard and masculine things and the woman stayed in the home and work on the house. But when we started to discuss what each others  families roles were it was interesting. One of the girls stated that her family all the girls do the manly things and the guys take some of the girls responsibilities. Such as, she would go and check the oil in the car and sometimes she would fix a bunch of stuff around the house. Another girl stated that in her family it was strictly the males job to mow the lawn she had never mowed the lawn before. She has never had the opportunity to change the oil in the car or check it because that was always the males job. When I started to ponder on my family and the gender roles I decided it really is a half and half thing. We would split up the mowing the yard between everyone in the house and we would split up all the choirs. It was just interesting how many people thing about gender roles and how you want your future home to work between gender roles. We also discussed the same sex attraction within our class. Because of my religion I have always been against same sex marriages. I have never supported them and never will. But one day my world flipped up side down. I never really had to worry about same sex attraction within my family so I never really took the time to REALLY understand it. Until a few days ago where I got a phone call from family telling me they were homosexual. This literally flipped my world around. I did not want to believe it. But at the same time I realized that I still needed to show him my love toward him. But my heart literally broke into pieces. Never in my life did I ever think we would have to go through this trial. Me and my husband were discussing this situation as I sat there bawling my eyes and could not calm down. We discussed how this was going to affect our marriage and how we were going to have to raise our children now. We will have to explain to them in a new light about same sex attraction and how we do not support it because it is against our Father in Heavens plan. We are to marry man and woman. But it is going to be extra hard when a close family member has come out and shared it. They will maybe think it is okay. Right now I am confused...heart broken... in denial... but know that he needs to still be loved and know that we are still there for him. What a life changer in everything I do now.