Mormon excommunication: Need not be present to win!
I find excommunication to be not only a theologically barbaric practice but also one of dubious utility. It doesn’t come from the example of Jesus. It also doesn’t work.
April 22, 2021
(RNS) Natasha Helfer, the Mormon therapist whose views on sexuality resulted in a disciplinary council on Sunday, has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Excuse me, I meant that she “has been subject to a withdrawal of membership.” “Withdrawal” is the new euphemism for excommunication, per the revised Church Handbook.
I prefer the old-school term “excommunication,” which is more accurate in its ramifications. People who are expelled from the LDS Church can’t take the sacrament, so they are outside (ex)
Therapist Natasha Heifer church membership withdrawn after Latter-day Saint council
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