Did they ask whether those who were closeted were more likely to be suicidal? Whether or not those from more fundamental religious backgrounds showed more suicidal tendencies?

Too often, folks who are opposed to homosexuality look at studies like these and condlude that the gayness (not the social and religious pressure) is the source of the subjects’ unhappiness. Discrimination is ubiquitous and subtle. It is not just the overt acts of persecution, it’s the constant implied and spoken message that you are sick or sinful — and that you would try to change if you were a “good” person.

Correct. Because that would be our old friend “post hoc, ergo propter hoc”. Correlation does not equal cause.

It is not at all surprising to me that gay people might be more prone to suicidal thinking, impulses or actions. Did they factor in the damage it does to one’s psyche to be told that you are going to burn in Hell for all eternity if you don’t stop being gay?