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Related: About this forumMormon women's rights campaigner loses appeal against excommunication
The Guardian
Saturday 1 November 2014
Mormon women's rights campaigner loses appeal against excommunication
Kate Kelly, who founded Ordain Women group, renews call for church leaders to restore her to full fellowship
Kate Kelly: I was excommunicated from my church for asking for equal rights
The founder of a Mormon group who was excommunicated over her advocacy for womens ordination within the church says she has lost her appeal.
Kate Kellys organisation, Ordain Women, said on Friday that her appeal was denied by regional church leaders in Virginia, where she used to live. Kelly, a human rights lawyer who now lives in Utah, said she would now appeal to the worldwide leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In a letter posted by Ordain Women on Friday, Kelly is told this short letter is to advise you that the decision of the council is to confirm and sustain the initial decision. She is told a more detailed letter, responding to the points raised in her appeal, would follow within two weeks...
...In June, Kelly was tried in absentia by an all-male panel of three judges, and found guilty of apostasy, defined as repeated and public advocacy of positions that oppose church teachings. It is the most serious punishment the church court can administer. The excommunication means she cannot participate in church proceedings such as taking the sacrament, speaking at church or offer public prayer at a church meeting... MORE at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/01/mormon-kate-kelly-ordain-women-loses-appeal-against-excommunication
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)The LDS, the RCC, really, any Abrahamic sect -- just walk away. It's all stupid mythology and primitive nonsense anyway.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I'd say "what a fucking joke" but it isn't at all funny.