It could be true, I suppose.
I don’t altogether rule it out, just yet.
But it strikes me as a suspiciously neat and convenient ideological weapon — perfectly suited to the use of critics of mainstream, orthodox Mormonism as taught by, say, the General Authorities — and it reminds me altogether too much of the claim, once commonly advanced as true, that domestic violence soars on Super Bowl Sundays (or, in England, that it rises dramatically when England loses out in the World Cup competition). See here.
If anybody out there has any hard data on this topic from a reputable, reliable, and non-ideological source, I would very much appreciate seeing it.
(Please note, for the record, that I’m not endorsing unkindness, calling for a lack of charity, or trying to break up family relationships.)
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