‘I didn’t want to be gay,’ Elizabeth Smart’s father tells LBGTQ group - Deret News

Contents:

• ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER SAYS G OUT AS GAY WAS HIS 2ND 'MIRACLE'
• ED SMART, ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER, REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
• I DIDN’T WANT TO BE GAY, ED SMART TELLS LGBTQ NFERENCE
• THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
• ED SMART TALKS ABOUT HIS CISN TO E OUT AS GAY
• JEAN SMART IS STILL A SCY SURVIVOR THE GAYS N’T HELP ROOTG FOR
• SMART VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?SMART | GAY | RELATED TERMS |SMART IS A RELATED TERM OF GAY.AS A PROPER NOUN SMARTIS .AS A NOUN GAY ISNAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO CROW.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAYETY VS SMARTNSSMART
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER SAYS G OUT AS GAY WAS HIS 2ND 'MIRACLE'

Back Augt, Ed Smart announced to iends and fay, and later to the public, that he is gay. ”Smart me out to his then-wife December 2018, when she asked him if he was gay.

“Do my beg gay mean that I’m gog to be ls of a person, that I’m not gog to be that good person that I’ve tried to be all my life? When he’s not havg his blog ncelled for sayg black women are unattractive, he’s argug that some natns jt aren’t smart enough to be which, his latt work, sayg that gay people are smarter on average, is probably his most polilly rrect paper years, strange as that may three large populatn surveys (USA’s AddHealth and GSS, UK’s NCDS), Kanazawa found a small posive rrelatn between timated IQ and self-reported homosexual behavur or I’m not sure what to make of this. Meangays1Kanazawa terprets all this terms of the Savanna hypothis, sentially the ia that telligence allows to transcend our evolutnary programmg (acrdg to which we ought to all be straight, amongst many other thgs) –.

Cult for dividuals to prefer or value somethg that they nnot tly prehend…However, uld be that Ameri and the UK today, smarter people tend to end up the kd of social circl where beg gay is (for whatever reason) more ma problem wh this is that the effects are very small. 013… but the associatn of homosexualy wh polil attu (liberalism) of 0.

ED SMART, ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER, REVEALS HE IS GAY

The efficients reprent the change homosexualy per ‘pot’ change the other variable, but IQ vari more than polil orientatn, bee polil attus were measured on a 5 pot sle AddHealth but IQ has a mean of 100 pots.

ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?

Intelligence and Homosexualy Journal of Bsocial Science, 1-29 DOI: 10. Ed Smart, the father of kidnappg survivor Elizabeth Smart, has e out as gay. ""I wish to share the news that I have recently acknowledged to myself and my fay that I am gay, " wrote Smart.

Earlier this year, the church officials said gay marriage is no longer a s that would rult beg dismissed om the church.

"As an openly gay man, the Church is not a place where I fd solace any longer, " he wrote. "Acknowledgg I am a gay man, is eeg but also hurts many of those whom I love very much, " he wrote.

I DIDN’T WANT TO BE GAY, ED SMART TELLS LGBTQ NFERENCE

Choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham, one of at least three openly gay 2013 MacArthur fellows.

THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS

Of the 24 wners this year, at least three are openly gay, meang gay people are signifintly overreprented among the geni pool. The news has led some to speculate that gay geni outnumber straight on, proportnally, the populatn at large. Are gay people really smarter than straight people?

Last year, Satoshi Kanazawa argued the Journal of Bsocial Science that gay people are typilly born wh more telligence than the average heterosexual.

Kanazawa asserts that homosexualy is an evolutnary handip bee prevents reproductn. Some scientists speculate that the same geic factors that e homosexualy one genr also duce hyperfertily the other, a theory lled sexually antagonistic selectn.

ED SMART TALKS ABOUT HIS CISN TO E OUT AS GAY

A gay man might be at an evolutnary ad end, other words, but his sisters will be blsed wh extreme fecundy, more than makg up the balance. Homosexualy, acrdg to this theory, isn’t some evolutnary fect: It’s a blogil boon.

JEAN SMART IS STILL A SCY SURVIVOR THE GAYS N’T HELP ROOTG FOR

This would lead more telligent gay people to e out while leavg dumber gay people the closet, thereby pletely skewg the data.

Gay upl are more likely to have higher hoehold and llege gre than straight upl—two possible proxi for telligence. Gay men llege, moreover, have higher-than-average GPAs and are signifintly more likely to participate extracurricular activi. Gays are wealthier and better ted than most Amerins; shouldn’t that dite that they’re also smarter?

SMART VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?SMART | GAY | RELATED TERMS |SMART IS A RELATED TERM OF GAY.AS A PROPER NOUN SMARTIS .AS A NOUN GAY ISNAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO CROW.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAYETY VS SMARTNSSMART

If you’re prone to gay exceptnalism, you might believe so.

Here, aga, an alternative explanatn seems highly persuasive: Gay people might jt work harr than their heterosexual unterparts. Startg childhood, most gay people are acutely aware of the challeng they’ll face, the roadblocks they’ll enunter, the discrimatn they’ll battle. Gays born to small towns—which tend toward homophobia—unrstand early on that they mt pe orr to fd acceptance.

For many gay people, that lurkg fear of stabily never go away—and why should ? The ernment still discrimat agast gay uple both obv and sid ways.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

In most stat, gay people n still be fired for beg gay. Many stat ban gay adoptn; others keep gay people out of their partners’ hospal rooms. Wh this nstant threat of bigotry the background, is any wonr that gay people strive for good gras and great jobs?

Gay upl plan well for their fancial futur not bee they’re brilliant money managers, but bee they have ltle to no social safety .

Before the fall of DOMA, many gay upl uldn’t share health surance, and none uld share Social Secury benefs. Gays might be overreprented the “geni” pool—and the Ivy League, and the Fortune 500—but there are more than enough dumb gays to even out the numbers. Homosexualy isn’t a magil spark that ign the fire of brilliance.