SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man recently excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints after leading a campaign criticizing the church’s practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders has lost his appeal.
Sam Young said on his blog that he was told on Sunday by a church leader at his congregation in Houston, Texas. Young says the leader declined to give him the formal denial letter from the top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Church spokesman Eric Hawkins says the way Young was informed is consistent with the appeal process.
Young was excommunicated in September after he and his supporters argued the youth interviews lead to inappropriate conversations about sex.
