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🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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On December 2, 2018, Mormon Bishop and podcaster Bill Reel was excommunicated from the Mormon church for apostasy. In this Mormon Stories Podcast episode we speak with Bill about the disciplinary council. We will play the recording of his disciplinary council defense, and allow Bill to offer a play-by-play commentary. We will conclude by discussing Bill's reactions to the verdict, and talk about what comes next for Bill and Mormon Discussions.
Hat tip to Miles Germer for editing the disciplinary council audio.
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1:28.0 | Okay, so what happened when it was all done? How did it end? |
1:32.0 | So, the closing prayer ends and me and my wife get right up and we start to walk out of the |
1:38.0 | room. We walk out, the executive secretary is sitting there with a box with 25 cell phones |
1:42.0 | and whatever it was, 18 cell phones. And my wife is on top since we're the last one to enter the room. |
1:47.0 | So we grab our cell phones and we start to make our way to the front door and my state president |
1:52.0 | hurry up and he tries to stop me and I should at least say this about what he said. In his closing remarks, he makes a comment |
2:00.0 | about he's a convert to the church, his family isn't members, but he still treats them as if they're children of God |
2:07.0 | and he doesn't treat them any different. Whether there's a family with a member in or a member out, they're still children of God |
2:13.0 | and he doesn't see them any differently. So what he's trying to do is he's trying to make himself feel better about the fact that he's |
2:18.0 | definitely going to be excommunicating me here in a day or two. And so he's trying to reassure himself that it really doesn't matter |
2:24.0 | if someone's in the church or not. So then he comes out of the room and he wants to shake my hand like, hey, that was a lot of fun. |
2:30.0 | Let's shake hands and call it, you know, let's still say we're friends. So I grab his hand and I pull him in and I say, you know, president, |
2:38.0 | what you said in that room was that it doesn't matter if you're in or you're out. That isn't important. |
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