Nightline Interviews Josh Weed: “Gay, Mormon, And Married”
Filed under: Patrick, Totally GAY!, TV Shows
Author: Patrick
Date: Jul 22, 2012
A man named Josh Weed recently posted on his blog that he was gay, mormon and married to a woman. The blog post (which was posted on the 10 year anniversary of his marriage) went viral and has sparked a lot of discussion around the situation and most recently, an interview with Nightline which I have included below. Here’s what he had said in his blog:
“Some might assume that because I’m married to a woman, I must be bisexual. This would be true if sexual orientation was defined by sexual experience. Heck, if sexual orientation were defined by sexual experience, I would be as straight as the day is long even though I’ve never been turned on by a Victoria’s Secret commercial in my entire life. Sexual orientation is defined by attraction, not by experience. In my case, I am attracted sexually to men. Period. Yet my marriage is wonderful, and Lolly and I have an extremely healthy and robust sex life. How can this be?”
In the interview, one Mormon says that the Weeds have set a bad example. “Using religion or spirituality as a way to manage your sexual orientation, you know, by being extra righteous or extra faithful as a way to sort of suppress those feelings or control yourself is the most damaging way to cope or deal with your same sex attraction. It’s a very interesting situation and interview and I recommend checking it out below and sharing your thoughts on this in the comments.
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Anonymous
July 22nd, 2012 at 3:09 am
This is a little bit hokey.. I think he’s just in complete and absolute denial, and that his wife let her spirituality drive her to still marry him. This IS setting a bad example
andrew
July 22nd, 2012 at 3:16 am
Why would a healthy woman want to marry a guy who is attracted to men?
James
July 22nd, 2012 at 4:18 am
Maybe they love each other, and being that we as a community ask that others accept us as we are and not question our right to love whomever we choose, we ought to extend the same courtesy to the Weeds.
Bobby Cox
July 22nd, 2012 at 3:15 pm
well if you are having sex with your wife and your only sexually attracted to men…which were his own words..than this fake marriage is not a marriage…@James…do people usually have sex on a regular basis with someone they don’t find attractive..yes one night stands, drunk incounters, cheaters, ect…I have never heard of a married man having sex repeatidly with the person they so called LOVE yet don’t find remotley physically or mentally attractive. THIS IS A SHAM. This guy is trying to have it both ways. like saying as long as I only think, and eventually obsess with thoughts of being with a man…yet never act on it..i’m a good person.
James
July 22nd, 2012 at 5:53 pm
No Bobby, I don’t know why this couple stays together, but basically it’s not my business. What I do know is that I take great exception to straight people judging my relationships as being less than theirs because it doesn’t fit their narrow definition of love or marriage. I fail to see how you are being any different when you claim that the Weed’s marriage is a sham. How can we as a community expect others to unconditionally accept our relationships when we criticize relationships such as the Weeds? It makes us look very hypocritical.
Bobby Cox
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:28 pm
it’s not hypocritical…if a man was married to a woman and was on the DOWNLOW should gay’s rally because we want to be accepting of his ideas of what a marriage is and should be. We as gay’s have fought very hard to be married and though we all feel it’s a given right..this man to THE WORLD has pronounced that because of faith…he is choosing to love this woman and only this women. Because OVIOUSLY he feels being gay is wrong. Can you imagine the impact this will have on his children…and the confusion that he puts out to his parents and friends..yes that really doesn’t matter to him..it’s his choice but ONCE AGAIN no one asked him to put it out there for the whole world. He deserves scrutiny and judgment because he asked for it. ANy person who is willing to start a blog, then go on national tv…then go on radio stations and pronounce to the whole world that he LOVES HIS WIFE…LOVES HIS LIFE…..yet lives a SACRIFICIAL life for the good of religion deserves any criticizing the public gives him. HE choose to spill his guts out. Obviously he wants the attention.
James
July 23rd, 2012 at 12:46 am
But again, most of what you are saying about him has been said about us. It insults me when people say we are choosing to live a lifestyle and that we are flaunting it in everyone’s faces just for attention. Can’t you see that what you are saying about him is no different from what is said about us? Why do you care if he has chosen to be with a woman? Why should a straight person care if you’re with a man? Live and let live…tolerance and acceptance is not a one way street.