722: Utah's Escalating Suicide Crisis and LDS LGBT Despair Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 74 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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| 0:49.6 | So given that this is so complicated, we've already started talking about, I mean |
| 0:54.2 | this is obviously this conversation is happening within a Mormon and LDS |
| 0:57.9 | context. I think it would be silly to say there's no association between the |
| 1:04.0 | dramatic spike in suicides in Utah and you know the Church's involvement of |
| 1:11.5 | Proposition 8 and what's got on between 2008 and now. So why don't why don't we |
| 1:17.2 | just go around the panel and what are each of you comfortable saying about |
| 1:22.0 | what you think what you're seeing as contributors to this high spike. What |
| 1:30.4 | are you guys comfortable saying about that if you're comfortable saying anything |
| 1:33.3 | at all? Wendy will start with you then Thomas and Daniel. Well what I feel very |
| 1:38.5 | comfortable saying is it's the whip lash that's hard. You know just this past |
| 1:46.6 | month or so the Church put out the video with the Macintosh family that I was |
| 1:52.4 | surprised even to see the Church's logo at the end. They went so far. I mean the |
| 1:56.5 | father. Talk about that. Talk about that video. Okay. I love that the father |
| 2:01.7 | apologized for some of his hurtful homophobic things he had said to a son or |
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