721: Utah's Escalating Suicide Crisis and LDS LGBT Despair Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Panelists Wendy & Thomas Montgomery and Daniel Parkinson delve into topics related to Utah’s escalating suicide crisis and the feeling of despair that many LDS LGBT individuals experience.
Part 1: In this episode, the panel discusses appropriate guidelines when discussing suicide and work to identify possible correlates unique to Utah and the broader LDS LGBT community.
Part 2: In this episode, the panel discusses the perceived “whiplash” of mixed messaging from LDS Church leadership about LGBT people. They also discuss how to communicate and address the possible causes of the escalating suicide crisis, without violating the guidelines shared in episode 1.
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| 0:47.9 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your |
| 0:52.1 | host John DeLin. It is April 3rd, 2017 and today we are a little bit more sober. I'm |
| 1:00.8 | not going to say we're excited to talk about this topic because that would be |
| 1:03.9 | inappropriate today. We have a very sober and important topic that we're going |
| 1:08.7 | to be discussing. The title of today's presentation is or panel discussion is |
| 1:16.5 | Utah's escalating suicide crisis and LDS LGBTQ despair. We're going to be |
| 1:24.4 | talking about how the suicide rates in Utah, especially among youth, but also |
| 1:30.4 | among adults, has been dramatically increasing over the past eight eight years or so. |
| 1:38.4 | And I'm just I'm really grateful for the panelists that are willing to |
| 1:44.3 | discuss this. So without any further ado, what I'm going to do is introduce two of |
| 1:50.8 | our panelists and a third will hopefully be joining us soon. But to begin with, |
| 1:56.7 | I'm going to be introducing my cousin Daniel Parkinson. Daniel is the author of |
| 2:03.3 | the article that was released on rational face.com and in reality they've done a |
| 2:08.8 | series of blog posts on this topic. So Daniel, if you don't mind, why don't you |
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