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Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, announces he is gay
KSL.com ^ | 8/152019 | Dennis Romboy

Posted on 08/15/2019 7:39:38 PM PDT by 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at ksl.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: chat; ed; edsmart; elizabeth; elizabethsmart; homosexualagenda; localnews; magicunderpants; noplanetforyou; smart; thatsgay; utah
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To: Pelham

Florence was great! I used to have a subscription and her column was the best part.


61 posted on 08/15/2019 8:43:07 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Ed ?


62 posted on 08/15/2019 8:43:20 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: americas.best.days...

He looks very much like a forty years older Matthew Shepard.

Delicate, indeed.


63 posted on 08/15/2019 8:58:44 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Perhaps a case of Male Munchausen Syndrome. Public attention and sympathy can be intoxicating, thus the public announcement.


64 posted on 08/15/2019 9:00:43 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Why does he think that this is of interest to anyone else?

Why does he think it even should be of interest to anyone else?


65 posted on 08/15/2019 9:01:36 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

OY, his daughter needs this like a hole in the head. Not to mention his wife.

I’ve always thought that would be the ONE thing that I could not forgive in a husband, homosexuality. You told me that and I would be, thanks for sharing, GTFO.


66 posted on 08/15/2019 9:02:38 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: LiberalismDestroys

As if that family didn’t have enough.


67 posted on 08/15/2019 9:02:52 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Songcraft

“Going from Mormon to more-men.” LOL, very good. Mean, but good!


68 posted on 08/15/2019 9:04:45 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: a fool in paradise

He had to one-up his daughter:

“Yeah, well, I’ve been hiding this terrible secret my _entire life!_ Imagine how *I* must feel!”


69 posted on 08/15/2019 9:04:57 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“...but there is one voice more important than any other, that of my Savior.”

Oh no, he didn’t!


70 posted on 08/15/2019 9:08:53 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: LiberalismDestroys

A 64 year old man who looks every year of his age. I wonder what kind of life he images for himself in the gay community at this age.


71 posted on 08/15/2019 9:10:40 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: LiberalismDestroys

“Mormons produce many gay children...” Well, they produce many children. Are they disproportionately gay?

Society has always had homos, and you know, I don’t really care. But please, don’t ask me to say it is the same as nature’s order. And don’t ask me to say that it is OK to leave your marriage and family of many decades to indulge your own sexual desires.


72 posted on 08/15/2019 9:13:27 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: LiberalismDestroys

I can’t imagine how the kidnapping of my daughter would have affected me as a husband and a father. And then, upon her return, to learn what her perverse hell kidnappers had put her through, physically and emotionally. I think I surely would have gone at least temporarily insane.

Perhaps the need for so long to remain strong for his wife and family postponed that day of reckoning, and an emotional breakdown and mental illness finally caught up with Mr. Smart.

I don’t mean to characterize homosexuality as a mental illness, per se, but the fact that Mr. Smart felt it necessary to make “news” with what could (and I think SHOULD) have remained a private family matter suggests there is a lot more going on here than is any of our damn business. Mr. Smart clearly is a very tortured soul. I pray he will seek and find the clinical help he so clearly needs before he becomes irretrievably lost.

The strongest, most compassionate and ADULT family member in this whole sad affair remains Elizabeth Smart herself. She hardly needed to have this burden added to those with which she already must live for the rest of her life. I wish her all the best.


73 posted on 08/15/2019 9:13:54 PM PDT by agave (Jesus: Bigger Than the Beatles)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

I knew this from way back then.....so did other freepers as I recall......


74 posted on 08/15/2019 9:15:25 PM PDT by cherry
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To: The people have spoken
"He may be a nobody, but every time there’s an abduction he shows up to be interviewed. Like in the recent Utah sugar-daddy case."

and now that he has come out gay, he'll be offered his own show on CNN.....

75 posted on 08/15/2019 9:18:01 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Michael.SF.

I’ve called him Ed Smarm from day 1.


76 posted on 08/15/2019 9:26:55 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

This matters because?


77 posted on 08/15/2019 9:27:32 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

“Isn’t that special?” And I should know this for what reason?


78 posted on 08/15/2019 9:30:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Pelham
If Michael Medved was saying that it’s because he lifted it from Florence King. She used to write the Misanthrope’s Corner for National Review back when. She was the best. That quip was in one of her books.

OMG, you are right! I think it was in "With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy" (but I'm not sure. It's been years.) She was a great writer... I've read everything she's ever written (well -ahem- everything she's written under her own name.)

79 posted on 08/15/2019 9:36:27 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (FOX has flipped. I am breaking the FOX habit. I have OANN on my Bookmark Bar now. No more FOX.)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Now we get to hear the pukes in the media talk about how courageous he is.


80 posted on 08/15/2019 9:59:15 PM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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