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Gay Mormon with a wife and three children outs himself on his blog

Gay Mormon with a wife and three children outs himself on his blog

  • Josh Weed and his wife Lolly from Auburn, Washington have a 'healthy and robust' sex life according to the blog post

By Kristie Lau

PUBLISHED: 17:35 EST, 12 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:33 EST, 13 June 2012

A homosexual, devout Mormon who is married to a woman and has three children has outed himself via a blog post.

Josh Weed from Auburn, Washington, wrote a detailed post last Thursday on The Weed, his blog, which explored his life as a closeted gay man.

Although Lolly Weed, his wife, knew of his secret for some years prior to their marriage, the post revealed his sexuality to many of the couple's friends and family for the first time.

Family man: Josh Weed (top left) is a married Mormon who outed himself as a gay man via his blog last week. He and his wife Lolly (top right) have three children (l-r: Anna, Viva and Tessa)

Family man: Josh Weed (top left) is a married Mormon who outed himself as a gay man via his blog last week. He and his wife Lolly (top right), who knew his secret, have three children (l-r: Anna, Viva and Tessa)

The post, which aims to answer questions that he and his wife preempt those close to them will have, goes into detail about Mr Weed's love for his wife and their sexual relationship.

'Lolly and I have an extremely healthy and robust sex life,' he wrote last week, as the couple were celebrating their ten year anniversary.

Mr Weed, a family and marriage specialist, has never had sex with a man but claimed he is certainly homosexual and not bisexual.

He wrote: 'Some might assume that because I'm married to a woman, I must be bisexual. Sexual orientation is defined by attraction, not by experience. In my case, I am attracted sexually to men. Period. I've never been turned on by a Victoria's Secret commercial in my entire life.'

Happily married: Josh and Lolly Weed have been happily married for ten years despite his sexual orientation

Happily married: Josh and Lolly Weed have been happily married for ten years despite his sexual orientation

The blog post, which is in part written by Lolly, explores everything from when Mr Weed discovered he was gay - he was '11 or 12' - to why he wants to 'grow old' with his wife.

He added that despite his love and attraction to his wife, he is gay and will never become a bisexual.

'I have many, many years of experience which confirm this to be true, but it’s really as simple as what a girl asked me in junior high,' he wrote. '"If everyone in this room took off their clothes, would you be turned on by the girls or the guys?” My answer, which I didn't say out loud, was unquestionably the guys.'

Mr Weed told his wife that he was gay when the couple went on their first date; Mr Weed was just 16.

'We have an extremely healthy and robust sex life... [but] I've never been turned on by a Victoria's Secret commercial in my entire life'

He assured his readers early in the post that his words were 'written from the standpoint of a devout, believing Mormon'.

He admitted that he was forced to reveal his secret after he began sharing personal information with his work clients.

'My clinical work as a therapist is taking me in the direction of helping clients who struggle to reconcile their sexual orientation with their religious beliefs,' he wrote. 'I have decided to be open with these clients about my own homosexuality, and in doing so have opened the door to people finding out about this in ways I can’t control.'

Mrs Weed revealed that the pair met as 'small children' living on the same street in Utah.

She wrote in one of the blog's most moving paragraphs: 'I knew that I loved Josh... I wanted to marry Josh Weed because I loved the man that he was. I loved everything that made him him. I didn’t want anyone else. I knew that we had the kind of relationship that could work through h ard trials and circumstances. I did not choose to marry someone who is gay. I have never regretted it.'

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I don't understand why he would tell the whole world about it. Why put it out on the blog? It's his life to live but he's got the wife and children to think about.

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While this is quite unusual and interesting, I still don't get the whole "blogging" thing. I can see why egotistical people may feel the need to constantly make public the details of their life and their every thought but who on earth reads them and why have they nothing better to do?

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Well this is ... Normal. 0_o

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I'm a bit stuck for words really! What a plonker putting this information on a blog. How to mess up your kids in one easy step!

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Denial is more than a river in Egypt!

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He claims her as his best friend, and because of their membership in the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS), her eternal companion. His sexual orientation is on the back burner, and the burner is off. Her friendship and eternal shared goals are on the front burner, which burns brightly.

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So she can't turn him on then? So how to they have a good sex life?

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sexual attraction is a thin foundation for a lifelong partnership.

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Please go back to this man in 10yrs to see the results of his experiment. I would be very interested to know the outcome. I believe he will eventually be unfaithful to his wife, break her heart and confuse the children. It's easy, when your busy with a career, and young family to deny your needs. But there will be a crisis of some kind. It will be interesting to see how he copes with it. Good luck to him and his family. I think he's going to need it.

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This goes on more often than you think, you'd be surprised!

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