Analysis of the data suggests that the problem is worse in LDS communities than the national average,” says researchers Michael Barker, Daniel Parkinson, and Benjamin Knoll in their new article “The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide” found in the upcoming Summer 2016 Issue of Dialogue: A journal of Mormon thought.
And in the supplemental article, “Youth Suicide Rates and the Mormon Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis,” Knoll looks at the research “in wake of the November 2015 (Mormon Church) handbook policy change that categorizes same-sex married couples as ‘apostates’ and forbids baptism to children in same-sex married households.”
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