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Last edited by MartyFunkhouser; 10-09-2019, 12:12 PM.As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
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Originally posted by Moliere View PostAm I the only one of this board that didn't think Ed Smart was gay?
Originally posted by Moliere View PostI know some members that have taken big issue with gay men leaving their wives. I can understand some of the anger, but these men entered into a marriage sometimes at the urging of church leaders, and if not at the urging of church leaders, surely from undue pressure, either explicitly or implicitly, to be in a heterosexual marriage. Some have been happy and stayed throughout the marriage. Others have been unhappy and with public acceptance of homosexuality they now find it tenable to leave the marriage. I can only imagine this wasn't easy for anyone in the Smart home, but I bet both Ed and Lois will recover and be happier. I find it great that he stayed until his kids were grown and it seems they can all handle this. I mean, if they can handle what Elizabeth went through, they can handle anything.
Originally posted by SeattleUte View Posthe's Elizabeth Smart's father?
Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostIs this news"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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Originally posted by Moliere View PostAm I the only one of this board that didn't think Ed Smart was gay?
Originally posted by MartyFunkhouser View PostSome of the comments on the desnews article are really sad.
The DesNews also outed him without his permission. I really have a problem with outing someone without their permission.
https://fox13now.com/2019/08/15/ed-s...es-out-as-gay/
The SLTrib also posted the now deleted Facebook post. I also think this was a poor choice as well.
I have a problem outing someone without their permission - but the reality is that if he put it on his facebook page in a public space, then he kind of outed himself, didn't he? I suspect he didn't think it would be news for KSL, FOX, etc. to jump on - so I get that. But it isn't like this was told to someone in private and they violated some sort of confidence. Unfortunate for something like this to get the amount of attention it did in this day and age - but I don't think you can say someone else outed him. He did that to himself.
Originally posted by Moliere View PostI know some members that have taken big issue with gay men leaving their wives. I can understand some of the anger, but these men entered into a marriage sometimes at the urging of church leaders, and if not at the urging of church leaders, surely from undue pressure, either explicitly or implicitly, to be in a heterosexual marriage. Some have been happy and stayed throughout the marriage. Others have been unhappy and with public acceptance of homosexuality they now find it tenable to leave the marriage. I can only imagine this wasn't easy for anyone in the Smart home, but I bet both Ed and Lois will recover and be happier. I find it great that he stayed until his kids were grown and it seems they can all handle this. I mean, if they can handle what Elizabeth went through, they can handle anything.
I kind of skipped this part of the story - but apparently before they ever married they had a conversation in which he described himself as somewhat bisexual. He indicated to her that he was also attracted to men, but wanted that he had "dealt with this issues" and wanted to be in a heterosexual relationship. So she was pretty bitter that he went into it knowing what choice he was making and in her mind had committed to that relationship - only to decide it wasn't working for him.
I get it. I get why he decided to leave. But I also don't blame her for being frustrated and angry when he did.
Honestly - I'm not sure how I would react if it were me and my wife told me that she loved me, but really was into chicks when it comes to sex and has decided to get a divorce to pursue sexual relationships she would find more fulfilling. I love her dearly, but I don't think I would take it all that well. (I think I could be "adult" and cordial on the outside. But I think there are elements of the situation that would be emotionally devastating. I also recognize that there would be elements of that decision and situation that would be devastating to her as well.)
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Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostDoesn’t seem like enough reason."Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
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Originally posted by Clark Addison View PostWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift
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Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostHa. CNN is such a joke. Fox News of the left.
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."
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Ha. I am loving the right wing version of SU."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostThat too. There are more left-biased media. CNN, CNBC, Fox all 100% garbage.
I miss the CNN of the eighties and early nineties.
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