Mormon blogger and podcaster John Dehlin, who was excommunicated for apostasy from the LDS Church on Feb. 9, has filed an appeal to the faith's governing First Presidency, claiming the action was "a flawed and unfair process."
In a Tuesday letter, Dehlin says that evidence his local Mormon leaders used to justify the excommunication — namely, his "publicly expressed doubts about several orthodox interpretations of LDS doctrine, including my doubts about an anthropomorphic God, orthodox interpretations regarding Jesus' atonement, the historicity of the Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham, and the LDS Church's claim to be 'the one true church on the face of the earth' " — does not "in any way satisfy the Church's requirement for apostasy, which requires one to '[teach] as Church doctrine information that is not Church doctrine.' "
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