We are very much in love. It doesn't matter what others might think of us in their ignorance. In the human race, love is seldom experienced, particularly by two who share the same feeling toward each other. The odds are stacked against it. When love does succeed, somehow, and two human beings are miraculously drawn together, this should be cherished, not dashed to pieces merely because it's not the most popular version of love.
Love is only possible between a man and a woman.
What you have with James is perverted, not natural. His mother smiled coldly. She deemed the virtue of her position so obvious as to be beyond question. The Bible says so. Our Pastor says so.