Actress Sally Field this week expressed
difficulty in understanding why some parents reject their children
because of their sexuality.
Field, who currently appears in the
film Hello, My Name is Doris, has a gay son, Sam Greisman,
whom she has publicly supported.
“Sexuality is a glorious part of
human existence,” she said during an EW Radio town hall on
SiriusXM. “In Sam's case, nature told him what to be. … I
welcomed him to welcome himself and find that part of his life.”
Field also had advice for parents with
children who are struggling with their sexuality: “First of all,
don't be frightened. And don't put your own prejudices or fears
about sexuality – your own fears about sexuality – on your
children.”
“What horrifies me,” she
continued, “is that there are parents who so disapprove, who
are so brainwashed to think that this is something out of the Bible
or ungodly or against nature. It’s not against nature if nature has
actually done this.”
“Sam was always Sam, this wonderful
human that he is, from the time he was born.”
“Some people actually shut their
children out of the house when they’re young, they’re teenagers –
they’re having a hard enough time trying to be teenagers and own
any part of sexuality. I’m still trying to figure it out!” she
added.