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I don't get the whole twentieth century thing of seeing gay men as an especial threat to young women. I guess it's something to do with deviance and moral purity and stuff, but I'm bad at sociological analysis.

My particular denomination was a bit oddball in that we've had openly gay and lesbian ministers basically forever, I think we're celebrating a several decade anniversary this year, but we took a really long time to accept same-sex marriage. I think this is a large part of why I grew up thinking gayness was a terrible affliction, it was clear to me that it's wrong to be mean to people because of their orientation, since that would have entailed being mean to rabbis I looked up to. But I didn't imagine it could ever be a positive thing or have any connection with finding relationships that would make you happy.

My parents I think just had no exposure to anything non-heterosexual until we were teenagers (the 60s kind of passed them by...) So they did struggle when their paradigm got exploded, but they were logical and compassionate and sensibly figured out that it's best to be supportive and friendly to LGBT people, whether or not that category includes their own children.