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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:19 AM Aug 2017

Any rumors going 'round in Utah about THIS?

Last edited Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:54 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mormon-church-leader-excommunicated-for-1st-time-in-decades/ar-AApJxwx?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

SALT LAKE CITY — A Mormon church leader was removed from his post and kicked out of the religion Tuesday for the first time in nearly three decades.

James J. Hamula was released from a mid-level leadership council based on disciplinary action by the religion's highest leaders, said Eric Hawkins, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Hawkins didn't say why Hamula was ousted, but the Utah-based church said it was not for apostasy, which refers to teaching inaccurate doctrine or publicly defying guidance from church leaders.

Efforts to reach Hamula at listed phone numbers were not successful.

Figured you Beehive Staters might've heard things the rest of us haven't.

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