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It’s a surprisingly heart-wrenching experience to tell your wife and children that you are being put on trial for apostasy by the church you love. 
  
 What I learned today is that it’s even more difficult to receive this news as the spouse or child of an alleged apostate — especially when you happen to live in a very conservative Mormon town, and will likely face considerable social stigma as a result of your father’s decisions (for no fault of your own). 
  
 The decisions I’ve made have certainly led to this week’s events. I desire no pity. 
  
 But if you have a word or two to share with my dear wife, Margi, or with our dear children (Anna, Maya, Clara, Winston) — who have born much of the brunt of my “activism” over the past nine years — please consider sharing it with them here. Perhaps it will make them feel like the sacrifices they have made — and will likely continue to make — were for a worthy cause. 
  
 It would mean the world to me. Thanks in advance. ||||| Do you have an idea for an episode of Mormon Stories? 
  
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 The two are Kate Kelly, a human rights lawyer who founded the Ordain Women movement, and John P. Dehlin, the creator of a popular online forum for Mormons and a doctoral candidate in psychology who has published his research into the problems faced by gay church members. 
  
 It is the first time since 1993, when the church ejected a handful of intellectuals known as the “September Six,” that it has moved so forcefully to quash such prominent critical voices. 
  
 The move is a sudden change of course for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had been working to project an image of greater diversity and openness. The church’s “I’m a Mormon” advertising campaign featured an ethnic rainbow of faces and some members who proudly identified as feminist, gay or liberal. And in the last year, the church has been trying to comfort members with doubts by posting essays on its website addressing delicate historical and theological issues, such as polygamy and why blacks were mostly excluded from the priesthood until 1978. 
  
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 The church issued a statement late Wednesday saying: “Local leaders have the responsibility to clarify false teachings and prevent other members from being misled. Decisions are made by local leaders and not directed or coordinated by church headquarters.” 
  
 Ms. Kelly and Mr. Dehlin were notified of the action against them on two consecutive days, leading them to suspect that the move was coordinated by officials in church headquarters in Salt Lake City. 
  
 Mr. Dehlin was sent a letter on Saturday by the president of his stake, or church region, whom he said he had never met, calling on him to either resign from the church or face a hearing before a disciplinary council. The letter, which Mr. Dehlin provided to The New York Times, said, “Because of the love I have for you, I have become concerned about some of your recent statements and actions regarding this church and your place in it.” It cited an Internet posting in which Mr. Dehlin wrote that he no longer believed many fundamental “truth claims” the church makes. 
  
 Mr. Dehlin said that he considered himself a Mormon, along with his wife and four children, and that he loved the church, but he has been open about his doubts. He is the founder of “Mormon Stories,” a website with podcast interviews on hot-button issues for Mormons questioning their faith. His following is not insubstantial: Many podcasts were downloaded 40,000 or 50,000 times, but some twice that amount. He said his site tried to walk the line between advocating for the church, and the hostility to the church often seen on “ex-Mormon” websites. 
  
 A speech he gave at a TED event at Utah State University last November on being an “ally” to gay Mormons was also widely viewed online. 
  
 “Mormon Stories has always been about administering to those who have doubt and have hard questions,” Mr. Dehlin said in an interview on Wednesday. “And I think Kate is doing the same thing.” 
  
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 “I worry that the church is kind of shooting the messenger,” he said. “They’re shooting the people who are trying to help and be part of the solution.” 
  
 The Ordain Women movement, organized only last year, has clearly agitated church leaders by mobilizing protesters to travel to Salt Lake City for the church’s big general conference, in order to stand in line and be turned away from entering the male-only priesthood meeting. The last such demonstration in March drew about 500 protesters who carried “proxy cards” signed by more than 400 additional supporters. However, the notion of opening the male-only priesthood to women does not have broad support, even from many Mormon women who say they are concerned about inequality and gender issues in the church. 
  
 Ms. Kelly received an email on June 8 from her local bishop in Virginia informing her that she faced “disfellowshipment or excommunication, on the grounds of apostasy,” and calling her to a disciplinary council hearing on June 22. Disfellowshipment means limiting the participation of a church member, while excommunication means removing all rights and privileges of membership. Ms. Kelly’s stake president had warned her in a letter in May that if she did not shut down the website, dissociate herself from it and repent, she faced excommunication for “openly, repeatedly and deliberately acting in public opposition to the church and its leaders after having been counseled not to do so.” 
  
 The letter said that she was “not required to change your thinking or the questions you may have in your own mind,” but that she must resolve her questions privately with her bishop. 
  
 “I’m just really, really, really heartbroken,” Ms. Kelly said. 
  
 She said she told the stake president and bishop, “What you’re asking me to do is to live inauthentically, and that’s not something I’m willing to do.” 
  
 The excommunication moves may have been foreshadowed last month in an open letter from Michael Otterson, managing director of the church’s public affairs office. He wrote that ordaining women would mean “radically redefining how Jesus structured His church,” and that church officials would not engage with those “who make nonnegotiable demands” that are “suggestive of apostasy.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) ||||| SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two months after Mormon Kate Kelly led hundreds in a demonstration to shed light on gender inequality in the religion — defying church orders to stay off Temple Square — the founder of a prominent Mormon women's group is facing excommunication. 
  
 FILE - This April 5, 2014 file photo shows Kate Kelly along with other Mormon women pushing the church to allow women in the priesthood, march to Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Kelly, the founder of... (Associated Press) 
  
 Kelly said she was shocked, dismayed and devastated to receive a letter Sunday from the bishop of her congregation in Virginia informing her that a disciplinary hearing had been set for June 22 to discuss the possibility of her ouster. The leader of Ordain Women is accused of apostasy, defined as repeated and public advocacy of positions that oppose church teachings. 
  
 John P. Dehlin, the creator of a website that provides a forum for church members questioning their faith, is facing the same fate. He received his letter from a local church leader in Logan, Utah, on Monday, giving him until June 18 to resign from the faith or face an excommunication hearing. The letter says church leaders are deeply concerned about Dehlin's recent comments about no longer believing fundamental teachings of the faith. 
  
 The cases against the two lifelong members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mark the most high-profile examples of excommunication proceedings since 1993, said Armand Mauss, a retired professor of sociology and religious studies at Washington State University. That year, the church disciplined six Mormon writers who questioned church doctrine, ousting five and kicking out a sixth only temporarily. 
  
 Church leaders seem to be drawing a line between private or informal expressions of discontent with church teachings and public protests aimed at pressuring the church, Mauss said. 
  
 "The LDS Church is not a democratic institution, and has never claimed to be," Mauss said in an email, "So such actions are interpreted by church leaders as attempts to displace or undermine their legitimate authority over church policies and teachings." 
  
 Singling out two critics of church policy who have made themselves very visible seems like "boundary maintenance" by the church, said Jan Shipps, a retired religion professor from Indiana who is a non-Mormon expert on the church. 
  
 "They are saying to folks: 'If you go this far, you are risking your membership,' " Shipps said. 
  
 Church officials said in a statement Wednesday that there is room for questions and sincere conversations about the faith, but that some members' actions "contradict church doctrine and lead others astray." 
  
 In certain cases, local leaders step in to clarify false teachings and ensure other members aren't misled, the church's statement said. Disciplinary hearings only come after members are counseled and encouraged to change behavior. 
  
 "Some members in effect choose to take themselves out of the church by actively teaching and publicly attempting to change doctrine to comply with their personal beliefs," the statement reads. "This saddens leaders and fellow members." 
  
 Even if Kelly and Dehlin are kicked out of the church, the door will remain open for them to repent and return someday. Excommunication is not a lifelong ban. 
  
 Nobody has solid numbers on how many church members are excommunicated each year, but the number is probably between 10,000 to 20,000, a fraction of the 15 million worldwide members, said Matt Martinich, a member of the LDS church who analyzes membership numbers with the nonprofit Cumorah Foundation. 
  
 Kelly and Dehlin both hope to be allowed to continue to be members of a church that they love and that has been a part of their lives since birth. Both served Mormon missions and were married in temples. 
  
 Kelly, an international human rights lawyer, said she stands behind everything she has done since forming Ordain Women in 2013. She said she has not spoken out against church leaders or church doctrine, only saying publicly that men and women are not equal in the faith. 
  
 The bishop's letter doesn't include precise examples of why they accuse her of apostasy. 
  
 Her group drew the ire of church leaders in April when they marched on to Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City and asked to be allowed in a meeting reserved for members of the priesthood, which includes most males in the church who are 12 and older. They had been told previously they wouldn't be let in and warned by church leaders to stay off church property to preserve the sanctity of general conference weekend. 
  
 Mormon church officials say the women's group views represent only a small fraction of church members. 
  
 Kelly doesn't plan to attend the June 22 disciplinary hearing in Virginia, calling it "both cowardly and un-Christ like" to hold the meeting after she had moved to Utah. 
  
 She does plan to send in a package of letters from friends, families and other members of Ordain Women about how they've been inspired and their faith strengthened by joining the group. 
  
 Kelly said the feminist Mormon movement won't die even if she's kicked out of the religion. 
  
 "Disciplining arbitrarily and unfairly one person is not going to stop this movement," Kelly said. 
  
 Dehlin, a doctoral candidate in psychology who previously worked in the high tech industry, said he believes he's being targeted not only for the website, Mormonstories.org, which he started nine years ago, but also for his outspoken support of the LGBT community. 
  
 He said he has no plans to take down the website or back down from being an ally for gays and lesbians. But Dehlin said he worries about the effects the upcoming proceedings may have on his four children and wife, and Mormons everywhere who have misgivings. 
  
 "Excommunicating me sends the message to thousands of church members who are struggling with doubts and questions that they are not welcome in the church," Dehlin said. 
  
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Kate Kelly wants women to be allowed to become Mormon priests. John P. Dehlin simply wants Mormons to be more accepting of gay members. Now both are facing excommunication from the church for apostasy, the New York Times reports. They were notified of the move on consecutive days this week, so they suspect officials at the church's Salt Lake City headquarters are behind the decision (though the church denies that), but both received notice from local officials. The president of Dehlin's stake, or church region, in Utah asked him to resign or face a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday, while Kelly's local bishop in Virginia told her she faces a disciplinary hearing on June 22. She had previously been warned by her stake president that she would face excommunication if she did not shut down her Ordain Women movement. Kelly founded the movement last year, and at its last demonstration, 500 demonstrators protested a male-only priesthood meeting carrying "proxy cards" representing 400 more supporters who couldn't be there. As for Dehlin, he founded Mormon Stories, a website and series of podcasts that address controversial issues and "hard questions" some members face, he says; he's also published research into issues gay Mormons face and has given a TED talk on being an "ally" to gay Mormons. He calls what he's going through "heart-wrenching" in a message on his site. Kelly agrees—"I’m just really, really, really heartbroken," she says—as do others: The news "is breaking a lot of hearts among the Mormon people," another prominent Mormon tells the Salt Lake Tribune. These are the most high-profile excommunication proceedings since 1993, the AP notes, when the church kicked out five members who questioned doctrine.