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.”
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Winner!
Bizarre.
Hurr Durr - I reject my church and all its followers coz they iz dum - but I am smrter than thems and my faith is better than thems coz I thoughts of it.
““As an openly gay man, the church is not a place where I find solace any longer, “ Smart wrote. “It is not my responsibility to tell the church, its members or its leadership what to believe about the rightness or wrongness of being LGBTQ.”
Smart wrote that he can no longer live trying to appease someone else’s idea of who he should be, and “have come to the conclusion that it was never my Savior’s intent to change me from the way I was born.”
Ok - 1. if it took you 64 years to come out as gay while having many children you weren’t BORN that way.
2. Sin is still sin buddy - and if you haven’t looked into WHY it’s a sin *y’know, like breaking up your family, divorcing your wife and such for some cheap pleasure” maybe you’re not as smart as you think you are?
Burning bosom?
He was probably going to be outed and wanted to head it off at the pass.
Was it REALLY necessary for this scum to go public on social media, what the hell is he thinking??? The pain for his family was not enough he had to go broadcast this on social media GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!! What a selfish ASSHOLE!!!
Yes, another sockin the psychological solar plexus. She is married now, this sort of betrayal will cause her to wonder about hubby, I suspect.
Just occurred to me - wanna bet Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper has relations with her father?
Is Mitt his buddy??
I blame the church. If it had been accepting in the first place, he wouldn’t have needed to ty to change himself and raise a family.
Mormons are a bunch of nutcases, anyway. What about polygamy and child sexual abuse of young girls, eh? Oh forgot about that.
There have always been and will always be homo amorous people.They’re not telling you about their sex lives any more than you are when you show up with your partner or spouse.
God, you guys are mean. The hate on this thread is disturbing.
That right there is funny
Why is it that men “coming out of the closet” feel that they have to shout it at the top of their lungs to people who couldn’t care less? If he wants to put something besides wadded pieces of paper up his butt, who am I to argue?
If he feels the need for religious acceptance, he can always join the religion founded by the great buggerer. He can also change his name to Hassan ben Sobah if he wants.
Oh, yeah, who or what is an Ed Smart?
I have two thoughts. He did honour the marriage long enough for his kids to be grown and become adults. That’s a good thing in itself.
I think men, who come out as gay later in life, are probably going through hormonal changes that should be looked at by doctors, if they weren’t so politically correctly hampered in making such diagnoses.
Hmmm...another one pussies out after years on the red pill, and like Cypher discussing his betrayal with Mr. Smith begs to be numb and dumb with his blue pill in his matrix.
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
And we should care, WHY?
Who are these people and why should I care about their privies?
Hello!
Ruh-Roh! Ed, no planet for you in the afterlife!
It’s one thing to be gay and living the gay lifestyle, but totally another thing to be gay and then pretend to be straight and actually marry a woman and profess vows that are a total lie. He should have stayed a bachelor and said, when he was pressured to settle down, that he hasn’t found the right person or he wants to focus on his career.
Most people have a problem with the latter, which is a betrayal. I’m assuming the wife was not aware of his gayness.
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