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?
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.
Not surprising. I distinctly remember thinking he seemed quite”delicate” in all the news interviews.
More malignant narcissism on display.
Poor Elizabeth Smart...talking about having EVERYTHING go bad in life for such a sweet girl. Hate to see what happens to her next.
He has totally gone crazy.
I’m sure this’ll help Elizabeth get through her trauma.
Selfish POS.
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.
Talk about tearing the family apart. They must be beside themselves.
I always thought he was effeminate way back when his daughter went missing.
Well, it’s going to be an uncomfortable Smithmas coming up this year!
We really don’t need to know his mental problems. He needs treatment, maybe committed. Embarrassed for the family, community, and church.
Ed ?
Perhaps a case of Male Munchausen Syndrome. Public attention and sympathy can be intoxicating, thus the public announcement.
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?
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.
As if that family didn’t have enough.
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.
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.
I knew this from way back then.....so did other freepers as I recall......