Hek211 is nuts. Many people that suffered at least the sexual abuse part rose above it, a few that were kidnapped did too. My heart was singing when I recognized that she would get the help as understanding to get through and over this. What a heart warming happy ending and politics have nothing to do with it.

There is not a topic that the right wing toxic hacks will not slime. hek is a bottom feeder. Best wishes to Elizabeth for her future.

I am a liberal feminist who has risen above circumstances that I am sure would have destroyed hek.

People with his agenda who can't resist taking a slap are weaklings, cowards, and bullies. This particular bully needs some remedial courses in spelling and composition.

good for you young lady; your faith and good upbringing brought you through a hell; best to you and your new family; P.S. lets take that piece of sh..t, who kidnapped her and hang him from a tree.

"Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart gets married in Hawaii"

What a wonderful beginning for Elizabeth. But, the past will still haunt her.

Best wishes Elizabeth.

Congratulations Elizabeth. Now I would like to see a similar story about Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped at age 11 and kept as a sex slave for 18 years. Both are strong women who were terribly abused by men with female accomplices.

Good for her and congratulations and best wishes to both of them.

Elizabeth disserves a century of happiness after what she went through

Good for her. Now, if the media would just leave her alone and let her live in peace, her life would be perfect.

Hmmm... I agree with you - the media should back off and leave them alone. Best wishes to them for a very Healthy, Happy and Prosperous life together.

As a conservative person, hek211's comments are about as "conservative" as Jarred Laughtner's shooting of Rep. Giffords....which is to say, they're not. They're the comments of a social deviant, not a conservative.

As someone who's been married for 23 years, I was struck by how young they both look in the picture. I hope these kids find happiness in marriage and a life together.

I am so glad to see her able to move on with her life. Many happy returns to the young couple.

@J.R.

I thought the same thing about how young they both look. She could pass 12 years old in that pic...He could to for that matter..

My very best wishes for Elizabeth and her new husband. She is one brave woman!

We might want to remember how her kidnapper was able to take her into town unrecognized--all covered up in garb that his "religion" allowed him to use to subjugate females.

Less religious tolerance is sometimes a good thing.

What's da matter, hek211, still can't get past all the times you were beaten up by the girls you insulted and snickered at by every... single... pretty... girl who turned you down for a date? Guess what: it's you, not them.

First I would just like to say to Elizabeth, God bless you and may your life be full of joy and happiness.

Second, this woman or shall I say child went through something many of our posters cant even fathom. To point fingers at religion, family or politics is just insane. Some have even gone so far as to say it must be Obama's fault. Really... Please think before you post all the hate, think about the subject for just a moment. A beautiful, intelligent women who went through hell as a child and will always have these demons in her life no matter what she does in life. She deserves our blessings on this special day. It has nothing to do with religion or politics. BTW yes I am liberal but wish all could just tone it down a notch.

Elizabeth Smart and her family became unwanted public figures when she was kidnapped. They didn't ask for or seek out celebrity. Their pain and agony was palpable. Anything this remarkable young woman does will, for many years, attract our attention. And I hope and pray that people will have the common decency to wish her and her family the same good luck, good health and success they would wish for their own loved ones.

Who knows, perhaps this young woman will be able to embrace her unsought after fame and do something positive that changes the world for the better. Or perhaps she will simply continue to be a good person who treats others with respect and decency. Either way, I wish Elizabeth and her family peace and happiness.

What has Elizabeth Smart done since her ordeal? She has SURVIVED! And that she has seemingly been able to do so with grace is nothing short of remarkable. For all those who have also survived such ordeals, you have my respect....for what that's worth.......Peace

hek211..I'm sure you think you are a very clever man but you are worse than the predator in this post

...you prey on women who have already been victimized...you're a carion beast of despicable proportions

call yourself hek911...and get some help!

Skeptikal:

Are you against having children (babies) after being married? Sour grapes.

Congratulations to Elizabeth, and her wonderful, happy husband.

Having great family support, and intelligence, Elizabeth's family knew how to handle the horrific event with their daughter. Elizabeth's parents have, and are, great role models for being parents as well. Strength and a strong love for their family.

poor hek,

unfortunately his ilk has become the voice of the right wing. I remember Newt Gingrich blaming the sociopath Susan Smith as one of the liberal, feminists a few years ago, but that's the m.o. Blame all the ills on whoever is feminist or liberal and praise everything good as conservative or evangelical. It doesn't matter if they are caring human beings or what diverse opinion they share, because different is bad. It's kind of like the morality police in muslim countries. Just as mysoginistic as possible, with a judgements on everything.

I fear for Ms. Smart if she does or says something independent. hek will comment on her "ghastly" faith at that time and blame it on that as unChristian or something...or worse, liberal or feminist.

Great for Elizabeth, I hope Mitchell and his &itch find out about this and get this news $hitted on their heads.

@Sichuan: That was a cheap, unnecessary shot. You reek of Fox News and Rush. There are cures for that.

Sorry Sichuan, that was meant for Hek.

Dazed and Amazed: The media is leaving her alone. I have not heard anything about her for years. What is your problem?

Good for her. Congratulations.

hek211, you simply should be ashamed of yourself. Okay, your 15 minutes of fame is over. Nothing going on here, go on home.

I'm happy to hear this young woman is now free and able to move on with her life in a constructive way, despite a horrible experience. Unfortunately, I'm also a bit saddened that she faces profound sexual discrimination in her marriage because of her religion. I am personal friends with several (ex)Mormons and they all assure me that institutional sexism is the rule in the LDS church. In fact, opposing the husband is tantamount to blasphemy in the doctrine.

Hopefully she will escape this new form of psychological abuse as well.

Smart, 24, and Matthew Gilmour became engaged in January, initially announcing a summer wedding. According to the Smart family spokesperson, NBC station KSL of Salt Lake City reported, those plans changed a week ago in order to avoid attention to the unscheduled ceremony

Maybe if you didn't have a "family spokesperson" or make announcements to the press, you wouldn't have felt you needed to change your original plans, hmm?

@HEK211 "What a good job she's done getting passed something that your basic Liberal Feminist type would be destroyed by. Best wishes..."

What research gave you those facts. So are you telling rapists to go for a right winger. would that be an easier victim.

I wish the best for elezabeth smart, she was brave, but lets not paint over the facts that she was scared. She was scared to tell the police officer who she was. You have no idea about how her ordeal is affecting her, and n

Now that was a well deserved butt chewing, poor hek should have left politics out .... LOL

Awesome!

What a beautiful thing for this young woman who certainly never sought the public eye. May she have much joy, happiness and celebration in her life. She is a shining example of overcoming the odds and exemplifies that not all of us fall to pieces in the face of even the worst of adversities. She is a survivor and a wonderful example.

I wish this young woman only peace and happiness.

I only dropped in to see how fast the political hacks on both sides would turn this into some B.S. political trash pit. And you brain washed Brahmin on both sides didn't disappoint, two comments in. Wow, what a bunch of pathetic losers you all are. So brainwashed by the dogma of both sides you are incapable of any other debate, let alone thinking for yourselves. What part of ALL dirty, ALL the time, can't you understand? You people are hopeless, you deserve the government run everything that's coming. You're too stupid to run your own lives anyway. Pathetic.

I love to see how Romney is trashed for his Mormonism alone, yet no one cares that Smart and her husband are Mormons, and support them as they should. Some of you posters here, methinks, are hypocrites.

I'm also glad to see none of the LDS haters post on this thread...well, excepting one...but the community collapsed his.her comment, so there.

Beautiful couple. Kristen Smart truly deserves to be happily married for her past hardships. Funny that she would be considered a "Gilmour" girl, derrivative to the TV show "Gilmore Girls."

Here here! Harumph! A real life happy ending to a horrible story. I just love happy endings in real life.

And the key to that happy ending, let's not forget: wonderful, supportive parents who raised her with the unconditional love to be strong and secure, and who doggedly searched for her, celebrated her home with joyful open arms and did everything they could to restore any loss of self-esteem she might otherwise have suffered. And of course her little sister who gave them the key to finding her. Gotta love a family like that.

Congratulations Elizabeth and Matthew. May you have many many years of happiness.

And your choice for the location of your wedding-- in Hawaii-- was a wonderful choice.

Well, 555777 Aren't you a Negative Nelly today! I wish them the best.

I'm not sure if your well wishes negate my point. But I wish them the best too... freedom from the madness of their beliefs.

@555777: Uh, she's 24, I'm guessing he's at least that. Those aren't exactly "kids," nor are they all that young for marriage.

Some people believe that unless you marry after 30 you are DOOMED! DOOMED I SAY! *eyeroll*

The church has her? Someone needs to back off the wacky backy...

She's a lovely young bride. It was a miracle that she turned up alive after her kidnapping by a psycho. Those stories usually end tragically. All the best to this couple.

Fils d'Artemis... Who needs to lay off the wacky tobacky? You must be referring to someone that believes a guy read the word of god off of stones placed in a top hat. She has moved from one captor to another unfortunately......

wacky-backy makes me so hungry...i remember my last fish'n trip...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVS1UfCfxlU

She has been through something really wierd and hard to get passed. I imagine her new hubby is a hell of a good man and I am glad she met him. I wish I could hug them both and tell them how proud I am of both of them

555777::: What two kids? They are both free, white and twenty-one. And as for their religion, I doubt it is any worse than some other religions I know of. Do you understand the Mormon religion? I figured as much-- you don't understand the Mormon religion like you don't understand any other religion.

I love how you ask the question('Do you understand the Mormon religion?') and then answer it in the next sentence ('I figured as much-- you don't understand the Mormon religion like you don't understand any other religion') as though you heard them answer it even though there is no way you could have heard them answer it...good stuff Susie, keep it comin' girlfriend!

Gotta drink the coolaide to understand it apparently. I've heard the "you just don't understand it" cop out many times before and I've drawn that conclusion.

Susie: Do I understand the Mormon religion? Well, I've read the book of Mormon, visited a few temples and read the literature provided to me by those temples. I've also read Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" which details the genesis and violent evolution of the early church. So I feel as though my grip on the Mormon tenants is firm. But if by "understand", you mean "believe" then, no. But feel free to explain what I am missing. I'll listen. And I agree that Mormonism is no "worse" than other systems of belief that look to eradicate the will and leave it's believers trapped in the paradoxical position of willing the will to not will.

...sound of crickets...

'god' is an idiotic idea promoted by immoral people to control and pacify the weak minded. Why don't you just wish them well instead of insulting their intelligence?

What does "god speed" mean anyway? Is it anything like "ludicrous speed"?

@The Lunatic: Just Remember that there are plenty of people still in the world that think the idea of no god is pretty idiotic. 0_o Not to mention, that if people do believe in God (as Elizabeth and Mathew obviously do), wishing them God Speed would not really insult their intelligence.

Because even MSNBC is sick of Whitney...

Exactly. I'm happy for the couple, but don't they deserve their privacy? They're just ordinary people, and yet they get their lives splashed all over the masthead of this website?

I think this is news because it says something to all the societies that believes that rape victims should be killed:

"Look--the dishonor is not with the victim nor her family."

And it also, I think it gives a happy ending to many others who were raped and had to keep it a secret or who were treated like dirt for reporting it, that the Dark Ages of Shame are officially over.

And now may they live quietly and happily for the rest of their lives together.

Why is this news? Why can't HAPPY things be newsworthy? Just saying...

Newsworthy enough for you to read and comment KLL123. Look up 'hypocritical' sometime, it's fascinating.

Voted for McCain::: This is good news because this is a case where he didn't steal her away from a husband as McCain did.

It's about time we read some good news. I was getting sick and tired of hearing Whitney and her drug habit, Bouncy (or whatever the broad's name is) and her baby.

Exactly. Why is this news? Yes, she was kidnapped, abused for nine months, and I can only imagine how horrible it was. But, is there not a time when you just leave people alone? I can understand updating the local community where the person(s) lived, but the entire world as if they just found the cure for cancer?

I DO wish every happiness to Elizabeth and husband, but if there is going to be a NEWS article it should include NEWS.

If you need help with articles just ask. :)

@Big Trouble...read the thread...voted_for_mccain is the one who said "Why is this news"...KLL123 was responding ....it doesn;t have to be bad to be news...news can be good too. Don't be in such a hurry to bash people.

@Strumley...have to admit...I'm sick of all the Whitney hoohaw too...I don't know what's wrong with our world...a crack-head gets a glamorous send off...and MJ...have you ever seen such a dog and pony show for any other child molester. In my city, a man was hit and killed while riding his bike...he leaves behind a wife and two young kids...no big fan fare for a normal, law abiding Joe Schmoo...pretty f'ed up huh?

I wish nothing but the best for Elizabeth and her husband. She is truly a hero for taking control of her life and not letting that scumbag's kidnap and torture to keep her from living!!