I suppose this is true of many parents. For some it is simply that they think homosexuality against God, against nature, condemns their son to hell. For others it is something else, more difficult to put into words. It makes their children too different from them. We do not want our children to be too different-so different that they face social disapprobation and ostracism, so different that they die before we do. His parents did not know any homosexuals, or at least they did not believe they did. His parents did not know what homosexuals were like.