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Article: Mormon church in Australia denies author's disciplinary hearing to do with book
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- August 5, 2005
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ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-05-2005
Dateline: CANBERRA, Australia
The Mormon church in Australia on Friday denied that an Australian author's disciplinary hearing had anything to do with a book he wrote disputing the faith's ancestral claims, and would not say if he had been excommunicated.
Simon Southerton, author of "Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Book of Mormon" had said that he was excommunicated from his church of 30 years after a three-hour Mormon disciplinary council meeting in the national capital, Canberra, on Sunday.
But, in a statement issued Friday, the national public affairs council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...