#1: What started it all.
OK, just found something I want to share. The reason it is going to be remotely coherent is that I wrote it almost six months ago, just after Josh Weed's coming out post on June 7 of this year. Just six months ago. A friend of my wife shared Josh's post on Facebook, my wife read it, and shared it with me. Up to this point in my life, I was blissfully living in denial. I read the article and my world turned upside down. Here is a portion of an email I wrote to Josh a short time after. " I have started and restarted this email more times than I can count in the past few days. There is just so much bottled up that I have never really been able to share, now that I am able to share it, I don't know where to start. Oh, well. Might as well get straight to the point: I am an active Temple-attending Latter-day Saint, have served a full time mission, have been married to a wonderful, amazing woman for 10+ years, and...