How sexual orientation, education and more impact whether a person leaves the LDS Church.
Or nearly. The book’s publication date has yet to be announced, but an early glimpse at some of their key findings on the faith’s U.S. membership provides additional insights into a question dogging religious groups of all types in today’s era of institutional decline: Jana Riess pictured with her — and Benjamin Knoll's — 2019 book about millennial Latter-day Saints.
Dallin H. Oaks, a senior apostle and next in line to lead the worldwide faith, has been one of the most vocal among church higher-ups on the issues of gender, sexual orientation and marriage. Finally, loyalists were, at 68%, far more likely to be married to their first spouse, compared to 38% of liminals and 33% of leavers.Perhaps just as telling were the factors that didn’t translate into much of a statistical difference among the groups — the types of communities they live in, for instance.
The result indicating that around half the loyalists have a four-year college degree or more was “a little higher than I would expect,” Cragun said, but nonetheless supported an argument he and fellow researcher Rick Phillips have been making for a few years now. And that is that the church “is effectively a white-collar religion.”
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