From: agr00@ccc.amdahl.com (Anthony G Rose)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Mormons and Human Statistics
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:34:15 GMT
Reply-To: agr00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (TONY ROSE)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

This letter is in response to the recent discussions of statistics in the
Salt Lake, and other Utah areas.  I post these statistics, not to show how
bad the LDS church is.  That is not my attempt.  My attempt is to
disprove the claim that the LDS people are "better" people when it
comes to morals and normal humanity problems.  These results are to only
show that Mormons are normal sinful people just like everyone else.

SALT LAKE CITY, UT --  A U.S. Department of Justice study has shown an
                       alarming trend in the rise of sexual assaults
                       and rapes between 1989 and 1991. The increase in
                       the largely Mormon state of Utah is 59% over the
                       last year.
                       Crisis calls to the Salt Lake Rape Crisis Center
                       jumped nearly 93% said the center's executive
                       director Abby Trujillo Maestas. "The number
                       never decreases. It only increases every day and
                       every year," Ms. Maestas said.
                       Utah is more than 77% Mormon and the LDs church
                       has a hold over most of the state. Some
                       publications have even listed parts of Utah as
                       one of the best places in the world to live. Yet,
                       the Rape Crisis Center here does not see Utah as a
                       paradise but a troubled plave.  Ms. Maestas stated
                       that the noted statistics indicate that there are
                       a lot of people in the Salt Lake City area that
                       are in crisis because of sexual assault.
                       On top of the incerase in rape and sexual assault
                       there has also been a 21% increase in the number
                       of reported child abuse cases in 1991.  Ms. Maestas
                       said that of the 939 rape victims counseled by
                       crisis-center volunteers last year, more than 400
                       of them were under the age of 14.  The youngest
                       clients that the center has severd are a sexually
                       assaulted 4-week old boy and a 2 1/2 year old
                       female victim of rape.


This article was printed by UMI in July-August of this year.  If you have
bones to pick about it, please contact them at 1-800-654-3992.  You can
get on their mailing list and receive their newspaper 9 times a year for
free.  Once again, I am not trying to show the "bad" side of Mormonism,
but as someone posted and inquired about the "successfullness" of Mormons,
she has been fed the lie that Mormons are not normal when it comes to
these things and that they are better.  This is not the case. They are as
normal and as sinful as any other human organization.

I have other statistics from the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News,
(Mormon owned newspapers in SLC) with similar articles.  I will post these
later.
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