Gay man and straight woman who married to prove their commitment to Mormon church announce divorce

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Gay man and straight woman who married to prove their commitment to Mormon church announce divorce
'We're sorry to any gay Mormon who received criticism, backlash or hatred as a result of our story'
Ryan Butcher @ryanjohnbutcher 2 hours ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mormon-gay-man-straiht-woman-divorce-commitment-lgbt-utah-josh-lolly-weed-a8184051.html



A gay man and a straight woman who married to prove their commitment to the Mormon church and their "dedication to God" have announced they are divorcing.

Josh and Lolly Weed, from Utah, gained notoriety in 2012 when they revealed in a joint blog post that Mr Weed identified as gay, which his wife knew long before their marriage.

They said that despite having different sexual orientations, they still enjoyed an "extremely healthy and robust sex life" and that they had decided to get married because it was in keeping with what God expected of them.

Now, after 15 years of marriage and nearly six years since their story went viral, the couple have written a new post explaining their divorce and have issued an apology to the LGBT community.

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[240B]

Technically, with four daughters, this guy does not qualify as being a homosexual by the definition of the word. At most, he can call himself bisexual.


If he was really a true homosexual, he would never have natural children from his wife.

[edpc]

Josh and Lolly Weed, from Utah, gained notoriety in 2012 when they revealed in a joint blog post that Mr Weed identified as gay, which his wife knew long before their marriage.

They said that despite having different sexual orientations, they still enjoyed an "extremely healthy and robust sex life"....


I will never hear the term 'lollygagging' in the same way again.

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Technically, with four daughters, this guy does not qualify as being a homosexual by the definition of the word. At most, he can call himself bisexual.


If he was really a true homosexual, he would never have natural children from his wife.

Uh, no.

"We were best friends but he never desired me, he never adored me, he never longed for me," she wrote.

"We put forth a lot of effort and were 'mechanically' good at sex – and it did help us to feel intimate, and for a time that closeness did help us to feel content in our sex life – but I don't remember him ever looking at me with passion in his eyes.

Many, many homosexuals with no desire for women can "get off" because of the simple thing called "friction".

"When I held Lolly's hand and casually liked it, or kissed her and had a vague sexual stirring [because] two human bodies were doing the kissing thing, it was very easy to believe that those tiny stirrings were romantic or sexual feelings, or at least were some lesser approximation of those things," he added.

"I allowed myself to believe that there were levels of attraction and connection on a sexual and romantic level that weren't actually there."

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I do not understand homosexuality at all. One of the biggest mysteries to me, is how they can tell the difference. If a gay guy is having gay sex with a woman, how is that any different from having gay sex with man. A woman has all the equipment a gay man has, so what the hell? What is the difference? It seems like the woman would be better at it.


I realize that I am speaking from ignorance, and I really am. I just don't get it?

[Frank Cannon]

Who gives a shit? I also don't see why anyone would post drivel from the top Communist paper in the UK like it is news.

[edpc]

A woman has all the equipment a gay man has, so what the hell?

Not quite, but the story would be a lot funnier if her name was Peg.

[dfwgator]

Technically, with four daughters, this guy does not qualify as being a homosexual by the definition of the word. At most, he can call himself bisexual.


 

"You either s... d... or you do not s... d..., there is no in between" - Andrew Dice Clay

[Bigun]

Who gives a shit? I also don't see why anyone would post drivel from the top Communist paper in the UK like it is news.

Stories aimed at one goal only.  Tearing down anything good left in this world.

[WingNot]

"You either s... d... or you do not s... d..., there is no in between" - Andrew Dice Clay

Little Boy Blue... he needed the money.

[jmyrlefuller]

and have issued an apology to the LGBT community.

Why?

They both willingly chose to enter a heterosexual relationship. It was their right. Why do they need to apologize to anyone? Unless, of course, the alphabet soup lobby is so offended by people not living THEIR way that they coerced the "apology."

[Oceander]

Technically, with four daughters, this guy does not qualify as being a homosexual by the definition of the word. At most, he can call himself bisexual.


If he was really a true homosexual, he would never have natural children from his wife.

Nonsense. 

[mountaineer]

Those poor children. 

[Oceander]

Those poor children. 

Why?

[Sanguine]

I don't understand how this is anybody's business but the unhappy couple's. 

[edpc]

I don't understand how this is anybody's business but the unhappy couple's.

It's not, but they decided to make things public in a blog.

[Sanguine]

It's not, but they decided to make things public in a blog.

Apparently they decided that there was some greater meaning to their experience.  I'm not seeing it.

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Why do they need to apologize to anyone?

Here's their explanation:

But they said that the reason they felt the need to apologise to the LGBT community was because of the negative affect their story may have had on other LGBT Mormons, whether from within the faith or internally in their own minds.

"We're sorry to any gay Mormon who even had a moment's pause as they tried to make the breathtakingly difficult decision that I am now making – to love myself fully for exactly what God made me," Mr Weed wrote.

"We're sorry for any degree that our existence, and the publicity of our supposedly successful marriage, made you feel 'less than' as you made your own terribly difficult choices.

"And we're sorry if our story made it easier for people in your life to reject you and your difficult path as being wrong.

"We're sorry to any gay Mormon who received criticism, backlash or hatred as a result of our story."

[jmyrlefuller]

Here's their explanation:

Indeed, the typical alphabet-soup lobby boilerplate response about how being in a heterosexual relationship is somehow denying yourself true happiness.

This was coerced.