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Summarized by Kent Larsen
Another Mormon Prop. 22 Suicide?
PlanetOut News 10Mar00 N1
By PlanetOut News Staff
MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA -- Planet Out News says it has not been able
to confirm or refute reports that a second LDS Church member has
committed suicide over the attitudes of LDS Church members towards
homosexuals. According to the report, David James "DJ" Thompson of
Mohave County, Arizona, committed suicide on March 9th, leaving notes
blaming the LDS Church.
Planet Out News credits Chris Rizo of "The California Triangle" for
the report. Rizo was the first to report the earlier suicide of LDS
Church member Stuart Matis of Los Altos, California, also covered by
Mormon-News [see
http://www.mormonstoday.com/000305/N1Matis01.shtml]. Matis'
suicide note did not blame the LDS Church's support of California's
recently-passed Proposition 22, but did express the hope that his
story could change the attitudes of LDS Church members towards
homosexuals.
But Rizo reports that just hours before his suicide, Thompson sent
e-mail messages to a number of friends and family members calling
Proposition 22 "a last straw in my lifelong battle to see peace in
the world" and denouncing LDS leadership for its "anti-Christ-like
political conduct."
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