Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, announces he is gay

KSL.com ^ | 8/152019 | Dennis Romboy

[LiberalismDestroys]

Ed Smart, the father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, posted on social media Thursday that he is gay, divorcing his wife and doesn’t see a place for himself in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In “one of the hardest letters I have ever written,” Smart wrote in a Facebook message to family and friends that “I have recently acknowledged to myself and my family that I am gay.”

[ruthles]

This is a profoundly true statement

[sport]

I got ya. Have a Blessed Day. I almost forgot, thanks for the information.

[bgill]

Guarantee he’s going to write a book.

[lowbridge]

“He’s 64. How many years was he straight or bi and just NOW come to this conclusion?”

Mental illness can strike at any age.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have a friend who is in her 60’s.
She discovered that her husband had been out on Craigslist looking for a “bi-curious” experience.

Maybe its some form of early onset dementia?

She forgave him and stayed with him. Not sure how as that is one pretty big enchilada to be left hanging out there.

[JimRed]

Why announce it? Why not just quietly divorce and move on?

[Albion Wilde]

What a dumb thing to say. Walsh has been married to the same woman for 48 years.

[Albion Wilde]

Yes he is gay BUT he is still Elizabeth Smart FATHER that includes her siblings.

I have news for you. Even a clam can reproduce. It's no big accomplishment, nor a reason for giving undue fealty to a betrayer.

[Albion Wilde]

Mormons produce many gay children who hide their homosexual by getting married and conforming to church norms.

Was it the inbreeding?

[Albion Wilde]

Isn’t Elizabeth the little chick that couldn’t escape from a tent?

No, that was Jaycee Dugard.

Elizabeth was taken out of her bed in the middle of the night by an intruder who gained access via an open window in her room.

[humblegunner]

Elizabeth was taken out of her bed in the middle of the night by an intruder who gained access via an open window in her room.

Right.

And then they all went camping and she couldn't escape from a tent.

And then they went to a mall and she couldn't escape in a mall.

One might almost think she wasn't particularly interested in escaping.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping to FLvoter's post 106, a sound answer to your misapplied claims of "hate."

God loves everyone. And God hates sin. He has warned us that we will all have some troubles in life because this is an imperfect world, due to sin. "Rain falls on the just and the unjust." Everyone must deal with some deprivations.

If you want to be on FR blasting a church for not defending homosexual ideology, you're not going to be happy here.

[Albion Wilde]

We’re happy for you!

AppyPappy was referring to Ed Smart, not himself.

[FLvoter]

When I said “false ideology” I was referring to the LGBTQ lies, not the church.

[FLvoter]

I know. I was joking.

[MayflowerMadam]

“the ‘love’ that does not speak has become the ‘love’ that will not shut up.”

Hilarious! And true.

[MayflowerMadam]

“He made some weird comment that she left home a little girl, and came home a woman.”

Ewwww. That passes “weird” by a mile. That’s just plain creepy.

[sport]

It was perverse. To me it is evidence of a reprobate mind. Think of the people outside Lot’s house wanting to have carnal knowledge of the Angles. I do not any sane rational parent would make a comment like that concerning his daughter. That poor child.

[Sans-Culotte]

Why did you post this? He is a nobody and should remain one.

I agree it's not big news, but a lot of people here called it back during his interview when Elizabeth was found.