With the Josh Weed thing coming to light, I figure this article also needs to be posting, as to show the perspectives and comments from the gay community. Feel sorry for the wife, yes, but let's just say we're more vindictive when it comes to guys like him.

http://www.joemygod.com/2018/01/27/gay-opposite-married-mormon-ex-gay-torture-therapist-announces-divorce-hes-totally-gay/

And when he says million word blog--YES, Oh my, too long.

Thanks. Interesting to read the blog and especially the comments after. The world at large and the gay community are not ready to just let him off the hook without a thorough reckoning. I found much of his apology self centered and to be an attempt to control the damage, rather than sincerely try to undo the damage. "I didn't mean to" just doesn't cut it.

He was a Judas Goat. By going to church still, he continues to be the same. I want people like Josh to stop ripping hope from the gay Mormon kids. Now. Sometimes hope is all they have to cling to.

I don't know about her, what empathy I should or shouldn't have. When I found out that my ex is gay, it as 1983. I had NOBODY to ask. I was told not to talk to anyone about it and especially not my parents. For MONTHS I didn't tell anyone. I was a mess, suicidal the entire time. I finally told 2 TBMs and they did eventually tell me to marry him. I was told he was damned unless he changed to straight. They didn't offer me any help. Sent him to therapy LDS SS, and I was just supposed to be okay. Then when I was depressed, the bishop told me I probably had PMS. It was actually something new at the time. PMS!!!!!!!!!!! How offensive.

Anyway, there was a lot more info out there when the Weeds came out and many people told them they were incorrect.

Carol Lynn Pearson's book came out 2 years after I got married. Talk about eye-opening, talk about relief that someone else got it.

Most people I've said anything to are angry about the Weeds.

Like you said--HOPE! All I wanted was hope. Hope that he was not damned. Hope that he would be okay. The LDS never offered me any hope.



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Cornell West said asking forgiveness is a process, not a sentence.

Or in Weed's case, lots and lots of sentences.