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Article: Mormon church excommunicates author: Australian writer's book cast doubt on church teachings
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 6, 2005
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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
Australia, author Simon Southerton was informed that his relationship
with his religion of 30 years would be officially severed, the writer
said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Southerton said he was excommunicated for "having an inappropriate
relationship with a woman." Southerton doesn't deny the relationship,
which occurred two years ago while he was separated from his wife.
The Southertons have since ...