Prominent Mormon critic John Dehlin recently announced that his stake president has scheduled a disciplinary council to consider Dehlin's excommunication.
Dehlin prominently listed his support of same-sex marriage and Ordain Women among the reasons for this charge and by the next day media coverage begun to promulgate Dehlin's narrative. Laurie Goodstein's coverage in the New York Times was typical: "Mormon leaders have moved to excommunicate the prominent founder of an online forum for questioning Mormons, charging him with apostasy for publicly supporting same-sex marriage and the ordination of women, and for challenging church teaching."
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