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Article: Australian author excommunicated from Mormon Church
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- August 5, 2005
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JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-05-2005
Dateline: SALT LAKE CITY
An Australian author who wrote that DNA evidence fails to support the ancestral claims outlined in the Book of Mormon has been excommunicated by The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints.
After a three-hour disciplinary council meeting on Sunday in Canberra, Australia, Simon Southerton, author of "Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Book of Mormon" was informed his relationship with his religion of 30 years would be officially severed, Southerton said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Southerton was charged by church authorities with adultery, but finally excommunicated for ...