I would find the idea of a so-called "mixed-orientation marriage" to be distateful, and really, ridiculous. Why should I marry someone who has little to no interest in sex with me? If he's gay, he'd rather have sex with a man, not me, and as a woman with a high libido, I'm positive my self-image and happiness would nosedive if my husband didn't find me hot. This is a big part of why I am in favor of legalizing gay marriage: I refuse to be the collateral in your sexual identity crisis!Gimgimno wrote:42—shoot me an email or something because I don't know who you are. I may or may not know Brandon and his wife really well. It's entirely possible.
And I've talked to Black Sheep about this many times before, but I'm of the opinion that homosexuality/bisexuality/sexuality is a combination of nature and nurture, and I think that sexual development during teenage years of most Mormon kids, especially in the United States, is sort of wiggidy-whack (a technical term). I don't really know how to articulate what I'm trying to say here. Basically, the nurture aspect for Mormon kids, in my opinion, is potentially conducive to non-heterosexual feelings. In any case, I think that the proportion of Mormon young adults who harbor homosexual or bisexual feelings is probably greater than the proportion in a simple random sample of American young adults. 6% seems very reasonable to me.
Brandon is a unique case as an active Mormon in a mixed-orientation marriage (a happy one, I might add, and not "a perversity" as Queerty suggested), but he's sort of opened the doors for BYU to allow USGA to form and other steps that have been taken since 2007 because he's a "happy ending" story. The administration really likes that. He has said on record a billion times that he thinks his story is atypical, but they really like that he's found a Church-friendly solution to his struggles.
Are straight women supposed to turn gay Mormon men straight now? Look how that worked for Elaine . . .