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Dissident LDS intellectuals say excommunications will continue
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PATTY HENETZ, Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY — Egyptologist Ed Ashment sympathizes with Washington anthropologist for now has escaped excommunication from the LDS Church.
But Ashment, a fellow member of the church, said he was disgusted with those who publicly protested the church action at a rally for Murphy on Salt Lake City’s Main Street plaza Sunday night.
“The church is a voluntary organization,” Ashment said. “If one speaks out in a way the organization feels is unacceptable, the church has every right to ask them to leave.”
A former coordinator of translation services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ashment isn’t just preaching.
He, too, is under ecclesiastical investigation and expects to be excommunicated for publishing articles that assert church founder Joseph Smith fabricated key LDS texts he said were translations of ancient scriptures.
If that happens, Ashment will join the ranks of other dissidents stripped of their LDS Church membership after the sudden, public 1993 purge of six LDS scholars who questioned church doctrine.
Since then, others excommunicated include:
* David Wright, a professor of Hebrew studies and the Bible at Brandeis University, excommunicated in April 1994 for articles asserting the Book of Mormon was a 19th-century creation of church founder Joseph Smith.
*Michael Barrett, assistant general counsel for the CIA, excommunicated in 1994 for disobedience after writing letters to editors of several newspapers correcting news stories about Mormonism.
*Brent Metcalfe, editor of the anthology “New Approaches to the Book of Mormon,” published by Signature Books in Salt Lake City, also in 1994. Metcalfe also edited “American Apocrypha,” which included the article in which Murphy used genetic research to challenge the Book of Mormon doctrine that American Indians are descendants of ancient Israelite families.
*Janice Allred, a housewife and mother of nine, excommunicated in May 1997 for submitting papers on her personal studies of theological topics at a symposium organized by Sunstone, a journal of LDS ideas and scholarship.
*Margaret Toscano, a classics professor at the University of Utah, excommunicated in 2000 for writing on feminist issues after being told not to. Her husband, Paul, was one of those excommunicated in 1993.
*Shane LeGrande Whelan, author of “More Than One: Plural Marriage, A Sacred Heritage, A Promise For Tomorrow,” excommunicated Aug. 11 for refusing to stop marketing his self-published book. His wife, Rhonda, who researched the book, was disfellowshipped two weeks later. She has since divorced him.
A disfellowshipped member retains church membership but loses certain privileges of membership, such as being able to go into the temple or serve a church calling.
Rhonda Whelan didn’t respond to a telephone request for an interview.
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