Mormons baptize people posthumously. This could prove to be disconcerting to the families of said individuals. It is an arrogant and degrading practice. If they have the power to baptize the dead then we have the power to do something similar. This is a thread opened for the purpose of excommunicating nominated Mormons posthumously. We simply nominate a recently deceased or historical figure and three ayes have it.
The first person I nominate for excommunication is Joseph Fielding Smith 1876-1972. President of the Church of Latter Day Saints from 1970-1972. During the civil rights era he argued that blacks could not hold status in the church above that of lay people because God was punishing them for some bruise to his cosmic ego millennia ago. He claimed that if black people were good, quiet, and obedient church members then they could attain priesthood when they get their own planet in the afterlife. A creationist and advocate against science he claimed that humans would never reach space :
"We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it. The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen." - JFS
Let's excommunicate this racist and assure ourselves that he is not populating his own planet with his lily white progeny. All those in favor ?
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I nominate John D. Lee and the other Mormons responsible for the Mountain Meadows massacre (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8kcqpTkj6k).
Yes, that one most certainly.
If I may suggest....
Joseph Smith ...... confidence trickster ....... fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
Closely followed by Brigham Young ..... racist ..... rebel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young#Controversial_teachings
This may get tricky counting ayes and nominating more Mormons in the same thread. I say aye to all of the above.
Okay lets go for it and excommunicate the entire mormon church and establishment. The catholics may have beat me to it, but I am all for the idea!
Yes! Quick, easy, and effective.
I say aye! OK , that is it . The entire Mormon Church - living and dead- has been excommunicated! Tell that to the next young zealot who bicycles up to your door. "Didn't they tell you ? You have been excommunicated?"
I live right next to a huge Mormon church (that non-believers can go in) and Mormon church (that non-believers can't go in). Whatever will they do with all that property now they are excommunicated?
They are welcome to liquefy their assets and impart a huge tax free donation to me.
Sorry, but they already took that course of action. With Trump.