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• 'ABSOLUTELY NOT A CHOICE.' ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER ON COMG OUT AS GAY, LEAVG MORMON CHURCH
• ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER SAYS G OUT AS GAY WAS HIS 2ND 'MIRACLE'
• ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER REVEALS HE HAS NOT SPOKEN TO HIS EX-WIFE SCE COMG OUT AS GAY
• ED SMART, ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER, REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY AND IS DIVORCG HIS WIFE
• ELIZABETH SMART'S DAD, ED, FIRST TERVIEW SCE G OUT AS GAY: 'THERE IS NO CURE'
• ELIZABETH SMART IS 'GRATEFUL’ FOR KIDNAPPG AFTER DAD’S GAY NFSN
• ED SMART, FATHER OF KIDNAPPG SURVIVOR ELIZABETH SMART, OUT AS GAY
• ELIZABETH SMART'S DAD SCRIB HIS CHILDREN'S REACTN WHEN THEY FOUND OUT HE WAS GAY
• ELIZABETH SMART REVEALS SHE'S ‘GRATEFUL’ FOR KIDNAPPG AFTER DAD’S GAY CONFSN
• ED SMART, DAD OF KIDNAPPG SURVIVOR ELIZABETH SMART, SAYS THERE'S NO GAY 'CURE'
• ELIZABETH SMART’S FATHER ED COM OUT AS GAY AMID DIVORCE FROM WIFE LOIS

'ABSOLUTELY NOT A CHOICE.' ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER ON COMG OUT AS GAY, LEAVG MORMON CHURCH

The 64-year-old Smart, who me out as gay Augt, told CBS This Morng that he stggled to accept himself after a lifetime of believg that beg attracted to men was “not acceptable.

” “I was prayg that I was not [gay].

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

“But how do you cure beg gay? ” Speakg wh CBS This Morng‘s Gayle Kg an terview airg parts this week, Smart said he spoke wh church lears while tryg to figure out his feelgs. “And I went to my other church lear, and I said to him, ‘So am I gay?

Am I gay? '” After fdg that he uld not supprs a very real part of himself, Smart cid he need to speak out so others n know that beg gay is not somethg that needs to be fixed. Back Augt, Ed Smart announced to iends and fay, and later to the public, that he is gay.

ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER REVEALS HE HAS NOT SPOKEN TO HIS EX-WIFE SCE COMG OUT AS 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? The father of kidnappg survivor Elizabeth Smart was spotted embracg a male pann, markg the first time he has been seen public wh a man sce g out as gay, exclive photos sgle Ed Smart may already be off the market after he was seen huggg the unintified man outsi a Starbucks the Sugarhoe area of Salt Lake Cy, Utah, on Saturday.

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

The 64-year-old announced Augt 2019 that he was gay and leavg the Mormon Church, as well as divorcg his wife Lois after 34 years of marriage. ' Ed Smart was seen huggg a male pann outsi a Starbucks Salt Lake Cy, Utah on Saturday, exclive photos show The 64-year-old mentned prev terviews that he was datg, but the are the first pictur of Smart wh a man sce he announced he was gay.

ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY AND IS DIVORCG HIS WIFE

An eyewns told 'Ed really looked happy wh the guy' Smart announced Augt 2019 he was gay and was divorcg his wife, Lois after 34 years of marriage and leavg the Mormon Church.

ELIZABETH SMART'S DAD, ED, FIRST TERVIEW SCE G OUT AS GAY: 'THERE IS NO CURE'

He returned to the spotlight Augt when he announced he was gay, would be divorcg his wife of 34 years and leavg the Mormon Church.

They were very touchy-feely, ' the eyewns said'Somehow, this person I've loved my whole life thks I'm a horrible person, that really tears me', ' Smart told host Gayle Kg on CBS This Morng December. ' But Louis nonted him four years ago and asked him, 'Ed, are you gay? I said, you know, "Your mother and I are gettg a divorce and I'm gay, "' Smart said.

His kids' reactns ranged om supportive to revealed some of his children reacted sayg: 'Well, dad, if you're gay, you're gay.

ELIZABETH SMART IS 'GRATEFUL’ FOR KIDNAPPG AFTER DAD’S GAY NFSN

But I do feel their love and I'm very grateful for that, ' Smart told host Gayle Kg. "December 10th, my wife asked me ‘are you gay?

"Elizabeth said to me, 'dad whether you're gay or not, I want you my life, '" he relled.

ED SMART, FATHER OF KIDNAPPG SURVIVOR ELIZABETH SMART, OUT AS GAY

Ed Smart, the father of kidnappg survivor Elizabeth Smart, has e out as gay.

ELIZABETH SMART'S DAD SCRIB HIS CHILDREN'S REACTN WHEN THEY FOUND OUT HE WAS GAY

""I wish to share the news that I have recently acknowledged to myself and my fay that I am gay, " wrote Smart.

ELIZABETH SMART REVEALS SHE'S ‘GRATEFUL’ FOR KIDNAPPG AFTER DAD’S GAY CONFSN

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.

Ed Smart, the father of kidnappg survivor and child safety activist Elizabeth Smart, has announced he is gay, divorcg his wife, and leavg The Church of J Christ of Latter-day, 64, who has also served as a child safety advote for years through his dghter's foundatn, announced the emotnal cisn to fay and iends a Facebook msage on Thursday. "It is wh this same spir that I wish to share the news that I have recently acknowledged to myself and my fay that I am gay, '' he wrote. "As an openly gay man, the Church is not a place where I fd solace any longer, '' he wrote.

ED SMART, DAD OF KIDNAPPG SURVIVOR ELIZABETH SMART, SAYS THERE'S NO GAY 'CURE'

Seventeen years after his dghter Elizabeth's high-profile kidnappg and rcue, Ed Smart spoke Monday of his stggle to e out as a gay man.

ELIZABETH SMART’S FATHER ED COM OUT AS GAY AMID DIVORCE FROM WIFE LOIS

This is absolutely not a choice, " Smart said, sobbg an terview wh Gayle Kg on "CBS This Morng. I wish that, more than anythg, ” said Smart, who scribed his plited and nflicted relatnship wh his lifelong Mormon fah and his sexualy – and the fallout that took place after g me out as gay Augt a Facebook post to iends and fay, nfirmg to Utah media that he wrote the post.

”In Augt:Ed Smart, father of kidnappg survivor Elizabeth Smart, out as gayHe said he went to therapists and church lears, hopg they would provi answers to his anxiety over his Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats changed s ntroversial l toward LGBTQ people  April, no longer banishg same-sex upl and allowg them to baptize their children to the fah. "I have recently acknowledged to myself and my fay that I am gay.