Elizabeth Smart’s Dad Says Coming Out As Gay Was ‘More Difficult’ Than His Daughter’s Abduction and Rape – IOTW Report

Elizabeth Smart’s Dad Says Coming Out As Gay Was ‘More Difficult’ Than His Daughter’s Abduction and Rape

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Ed Smart, the father of famed child kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart, said in an interview this week that coming out as gay was “more difficult” than when his 14-year-old daughter was taken from their Salt Lake City home, repeatedly raped and held captive for nine months.

Smart, who has six children with his now ex-wife Lois, made headlines earlier this year for coming out publicly as gay, a lifestyle that’s in opposition to the Mormon church in which he was raised and has been a member of his whole life. His newly embraced sexuality quickly launched him on to the national stage as a public advocate and lauded speaker at LGBTQ events, even landing him a spot on CBS This Morning this week where he told Gayle King he’s “relieved” to be out.

But apparently, it’s not enough to have simply come out as gay; now, Smart’s comparing his own experience as a closeted homosexual with his family’s struggle with Elizabeth’s abduction. Speaking at a conference Saturday, Smart claimed that while enduring his teenage daughter’s kidnapping was “very difficult,” coming out as gay was “more difficult.” 

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24 Comments on Elizabeth Smart’s Dad Says Coming Out As Gay Was ‘More Difficult’ Than His Daughter’s Abduction and Rape

  1. “Men will be lovers of their own selves…the love of many shall grow cold…without natural affection…”

    (I wonder if he’s a Mormon in good standing.

    – grool)

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  2. What a giant self-serving asshole. Elizabeth is his child. He should never ever say shit like that. He shouldn’t even compare that to someone else’s child being abducted and raped. That is so sick!

    I always suspected he was somehow involved with his daughter’s abduction.
    Didn’t the abductor shack up at their house before he took her???

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  3. Wonder if Time considered him for Man of the Year.

    Why not, a guy turns on his wife, kids, screws other men, and most of all, TURNS HIS BACK ON GOD!

    He’s perfect for Time’s cover.

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