Sam Young, the former bishop who staged a hunger strike in Utah regarding bishops interviewing children and asking questions of a sexual nature, has been summoned to a disciplinary council and may face excommunication.
It's rare for incidents like this to make the mainstream news. In most cases, no one cares about Mormonism with the exception of Mormons themselves and perhaps former members. Sam Young, like John Dehlin and Kate Kelly, has become a news story. For the first time in several years I have people who aren't members asking about specific LDS people in the news-and no it's not Mitt Romney this time.
Will Sam Young be excommunicated? Probably. I'm not sure they'd bother to hold a tribunal if the outcome wasn't already predetermined. He's in public opposition to some of the church teachings, so in the eyes of the church, he's an apostate.
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