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1 posted on 08/15/2019 7:39:38 PM PDT by LiberalismDestroys
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Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, announces he is gay


33 posted on 08/15/2019 8:07:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Why is this news? He may have posted it on Facebook, but the news is not obligated to run with it. Are they so short on worthy news that they have time to waste on some guy’s coming out party?


36 posted on 08/15/2019 8:09:57 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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Not shocked at all. I pretty much knew he was gay. I hope that Mr. Smart remains close to his children. Yes he is gay BUT he is still Elizabeth Smart FATHER that includes her siblings.


37 posted on 08/15/2019 8:10:24 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Not surprising. I distinctly remember thinking he seemed quite”delicate” in all the news interviews.


39 posted on 08/15/2019 8:11:59 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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More malignant narcissism on display.


43 posted on 08/15/2019 8:18:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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Poor Elizabeth Smart...talking about having EVERYTHING go bad in life for such a sweet girl. Hate to see what happens to her next.


46 posted on 08/15/2019 8:18:22 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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He has totally gone crazy.


50 posted on 08/15/2019 8:23:45 PM PDT by Innovative
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I’m sure this’ll help Elizabeth get through her trauma.

Selfish POS.


52 posted on 08/15/2019 8:30:57 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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So this just has to be shouted from the media rooftops?
You couldn’t discreetly talk about it with your family?
He must have a book coming out, or a Reality Show.

Most people have forgotten who he and his daughter are.
Now, all this will be dredged up again.
Come to think of it his daughter has also continued to seek the limelight when she did not have to.


53 posted on 08/15/2019 8:31:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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Talk about tearing the family apart. They must be beside themselves.

I always thought he was effeminate way back when his daughter went missing.


54 posted on 08/15/2019 8:31:36 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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Well, it’s going to be an uncomfortable Smithmas coming up this year!


57 posted on 08/15/2019 8:38:31 PM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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We really don’t need to know his mental problems. He needs treatment, maybe committed. Embarrassed for the family, community, and church.


58 posted on 08/15/2019 8:40:24 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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Ed ?


62 posted on 08/15/2019 8:43:20 PM PDT by PGalt
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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