Does It Matter If You're an Excommunicated Mormon?

In recent years, two very prominent critics of Mormonism were excommunicated: Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin, of Mormon Stories podcast fame. Both supported same-sex marriage and the ordination of women to the priesthood, but the Mormon church has insisted that others can hold these views without church discipline. It seems more likely that Dehlin was excommunicated for his stance on the historicity of The Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price, which he believes were fictions written by Joseph Smith rather than divinely-revealed doctrine. He was also excommunicated for having created a hugely successful platform where others gathered in agreement with him. Kate Kelly was most likely excommunicated for staging public protests that embarrassed the church and made the church leadership look bad. The official term for both was "heresy."