Joanna Brooks

But Professor Randy Bott is no outlier.

Meanwhile, progressive Mormons welcome court ruling.

“Despite a large missionary force and a persistent emphasis on growth,” Phillips and Cragun write, “Mormons are actually treading water with respect to their per capita presence in the U.S.” In fact, additional studies by Cragun and Phillips show that retention rates of young people (young men especially) raised Mormon have dropped substantially in the last decade.