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As the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
And the difficulties may not be confined to members of the church. Utah ranks number one in incidents of depression and suicides, nationwide. One study reported: “In Utah, 14 percent of adults and adolescents reported experiencing severe psychological distress, and 10 percent said they’d had a major depressive episode in the past year. Bad mental health days come three times a month for those living in Utah.”i Incidentally, Utah leads the nation in fraud (see “God is Not a Good Investment Advisor,” chapter 8) and pornography consumptionii , too.
Sex researchers Darrel Ray and Amanda Brown compiled a tremendous amount of data on the impact of religion upon sexuality. Unsurprisingly, their findings
demonstrated that fundamentalist religions employ more guilt than liberal ones. Slightly more surprising was that the Mormons topped the list for levels of guilt about sex over all other denominations, even significantly above Catholicsiii.
There are in fact at least ten different—some radically different—known versions of the “First Vision.”*
