Evangelical teaching blamed absent fathers for turning boys homosexual.

Evidence

By giving husbands what they wanted, women could transform marriage from “an endurance contest” into something enjoyable. And they could keep men at home, which was good for women, and good for their kids—especially their boys. If a father was absent, a boy might start to identify too much with his mother “and begin to develop certain feminine qualities on a subconscious level,” opening the door to homosexuality. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 146

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the specific causal mechanism — father absence produces feminine identification produces homosexuality — that anchored evangelical gender ideology.