I guess when you kid is gay, you still want then to be happy and to live a full life.
I can see his point.
If that were fully true (and he were really a conservative); then he would (~love her~) but help here to escape from homosexuality and see it as wrong, not ~coddle~ those behaviors! Homosexuality is not an ingrained thing, something (either her own sin, or someone else upon her) caused this!