Kurt R. Peterson

Cruel remarks may push gay teens to suicide

Editor,

This past weekend, we in Utah lost another wonderful young man. He was, sadly enough, just the latest in a long series of teenage/young adult suicides by Latter-day Saint youth who were gay. Some, like this young man in Fountain Green, were bullied to the point that they just gave up. Others had just lost all hope of living a fulfilling life. For whatever reason, their pain grew to the point that it was larger than their desire to live, and they ended life.

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