LDS member fighting to end youth interviews summoned to hearing

[TexasTowelie]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A LDS man who has led a campaign criticizing the church’s practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders where sexual questions sometimes arise said Thursday he has been summoned to a disciplinary council.

A letter posted online by Sam Young of Houston said he could be facing excommunication because he encouraged others to vote against leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has organized more than one public action that expressed opposition.

Young, 65, recently finished a 23-day hunger strike in Salt Lake City near church headquarters to bring attention to his cause.

In March, he organized a protest march of about 1,000 people who walked to church headquarters to call attention to the interviews they think include inappropriate questions that can lead to shaming of youth.

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[MineralMan]

1. The only unforgivable sin is questioning the church.

Time and time again that gets demonstrated.

[Lordquinton]

2. "vote for us or be excommunicated"

Democracy in action.

[The Genealogist]

3. My, my, my, some do get rather touchy when their authority is challenged

Touchy indeed.