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Mormon Stories Podcast

1267: The Excommunication of John Dehlin Pt. 4 - Stake President Bryan King (6/29/2014)

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

February 2020 marks the 5 year anniversary of my excommunication from the Mormon church.

In a desire to protect myself against the possibility of slander or misinformation from the church or its apologists (as was experienced by former church members such as Fawn Brodie, Simon Southerton, and Kate Kelly during their disciplinary councils), I recorded all of the interviews I had with my bishops (James Stephenson and Brian Hunt) and stake presidents (Mark Jensen and Bryan King) leading up to my disciplinary council/excommunication.

As I have been opposed to Mormon Disciplinary Councils from my childhood on, it was always my intention to publish these interviews as a matter of public record - but I decided to hold off on publishing them for several years.

In light of the recent changes made to the Mormon church's disciplinary council process, and on the 5th anniversary of my excommunication, I am publishing them now.

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Things kind of fast forward to mid-year kind of in the June time frame.

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What happened was I received a letter dated June 7, 2014 from Brian King, the new

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state president, the orthopedic surgeon and Logan who I had never met.

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And it was received in the same week that Kate Kelly had received a letter calling her

1:10.8

to a disciplinary council.

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So the two of us received these letters within a week of each other and we're starting

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to think, okay, Denver Stuffer's already been executed.

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A purge is coming.

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And so we notified Greg Prince and the New York Times and Lori Goods, the New York Times

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and we just let them know that Kate Kelly's being executed, I was being executed and the

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purge was coming.

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And part of the weird thing about receiving this letter from Brian King was that he had never

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actually sat down and meet with me.

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He had never met me.

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