NBC– Ed Smart, father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, has revealed that he is gay, sharing in a letter on Facebook that he is divorcing his wife and leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Smart, 64, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was thrust into the international spotlight when his daughter was abducted at knifepoint from her bedroom in 2002 when she was 14. Elizabeth Smart has credited the faith her family instilled in her with helping her get through her nine-month ordeal.
In a letter to friends and family sent through Facebook Messenger on Thursday, obtained by NBC News, Ed Smart said he was “finally acknowledging a part of me that I have struggled with most of my life and never wanted to accept.”
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I knew it!!! I remember telling my parents, “that dude is gay” when we saw him and his wife talking in an interview.
Allowed himself to become a queer and left the church. The only good thing that can be said about him is that at least he is not a hyprocrite
Now he is free to start his own church. He could call it the Church of Harvey Milk.
Just trying to get his name back in the news.
He should scribble a sign and hold it on Main Street.
WILL SUCK COCK FOR FAME.
Ed’s joining the More Men church. They always end their services with a hearty ahh men !!
Bet his wife knew all along. She must have put up with alot over the years and very sure his deviant behavior increased. How pathetic.
BTW, Speaking of self-centered jerks, Peter Fonda just died;
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-fonda-dead-easy-rider-architect-counter-cultural-icon-was-79-1232714 .
@chalupa for the win!!!
On a positive note…Peter Fonda has died of TDS….and LSD…and..
@99th.
Yes. Peter Fonda. Made one movie, Sleepy Rider, I think. Cultural icon. YadaYada. Got his start because of his papa. Did nothing with it.
And then there’s his adorable sister, Jane.
What a contribution to the country Peter Sr.’s sperm scores made to the country. Should have made less movies and been more of a father.
Wow. Who could’ve predicted this? Said no one with 2 eyes, 2 ears and an 80 IQ score? And who doesn’t announce this on FB?
It’s OK to be GAY, in ELCA – probably where he’s headed next. 🤮
In a sane world this wouldn’t even be newsworthy and something best kept personal, yet here we are…
So sad.
It’s all about “ME!”
Creator God, wife, vows, family are really not that important to the god of ME.
Why in the hell do you announce to the world that you’re a nut?
He could also join the See men club or the LDS chapter See more men. Isn’t 64 a little old to come out as a queer? Wouldn’t 69 be more like it.
“Peter” fonda in an article about a queer? Theres gotta be a joke there.
Its too bad the hollywoodies have to push their agenda. They had a good thing going. I enjoyed easy rider, the music, the camera work, the plot. It was good. It was decadent and edgy, like a 70’s movie should be. As far as his timely death at 79, it comes to us all, some of them not soon enough.
He looks old enough to need viagra. Just don’t swallow the pill and you can stay with your family idiot.
It could be worse – at least he didn’t go the bruce jenner route….
@PHenry, Hollyweird leftists actors are truly all about deception. Who knew Perv Fonda was sick, except his family and friends.
Maybe a hint of his deterioration was his evil, hate-filled rant against Barron Trump, that was investigated by the Secret Service. Must have figured he had nothing to lose and went full libtard.
Why would anybody be interested in poor Elizabeth Smart’s creepy farher’s bizarre proclivities? It’s unnecessary and unsemenly. .
Best friend in school’s dad was a fag. Everyone knew, except his kids. Once all the children were grown dad promptly left mom and began living his anus-humping fecal, fag lifestyle. He died of AIDS within a decade. What a waste.
Imagine, after 64 years, thinking: “I’d really like a **** up my ***.”
Well, if it makes him happy.
Maybe he wants to be Mayor Peter in the Butt’s vice presidential running fag!
LGBTQXYZ’S bore the hell out of me. They demand
that everyone who doesn’t give a damn be aware of
their “delicate condition” and worship at the alter
of celebrating it.
Just shut up and let us mind our own business
why don’t you. Sheesh.
Seriously. How much more time does this man think he has? What can he accomplish as a glory hole that he didn’t as a man?
She didn’t become smart from him.
Since he had kids, he must have been sexually aroused by his wife, even if for only 5 minutes. So, during those times, he was not a queer.
This leads to the conclusion that he thinking he is a queer is just in his imagination.
And Peter Fonda is still dead!
mental illness……..
“What Jimmy didn’t know was that Ralph was sick — a sickness that was not visible, like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious — a sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual.”
Sid Davis
Not that I ever would. But were I to turn gay for some reason, I wouldn’t “announce it.”
BEACUSE NOBODY FCUKING CARES!
Mit Romney next to come out!
Next, romney will come out of the closet.it’ll.wxplai a few things.
Aha. Now we know why he brought homeless guys to do contract labor around the house. That is how the kidnapper spotted little Elizabeth in the first place. I always thought it was creepy that a father would make his family vulnerable like that. Charge him as an accessory to the crime against his daughter.
I have much less of a problem with him being gay than I do with him leaving his church. Why would he do that? And I’m with MJA– I also thought he was gay.
Brown Eyed Girl,
The LDS church takes sex outside of marriage seriously as in if one is openly rebelling against the law of chastity you will be excommunicated. what he is saying is “you didn’t excommunicated me, I left!”.
he would be looking at the same consequences if he announced he was leaving his wife for a mistress.
Can’t we just shove them all back in the closet?
Ed’s joining the More Men church.
They are headquartered in San Fransisco’s docks where they are always on the lookout for sea men.
Overall, Utah is a pretty weird place. You’d think it wouldn’t be, but it is.