LDS Church leaders release, excommunicate Elder James J. Hamula

[underpants]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686362/LDS-Church-leaders-release-excommunicate-Elder-James-J-Hamula.html

SALT LAKE CITY — Senior LDS Church leaders on Tuesday excommunicated a member of the Quorum of the Seventy who had been serving as the executive director of the church’s Correlation Department.

"This morning, James J. Hamula was released as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, following church disciplinary action by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles," said Eric Hawkins, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The removal and excommunication of a general authority of the church is extremely rare, then, but when necessary, a disciplinary council for a senior LDS leader is comprised of members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. Church leaders have said they hold the faith's most senior leaders to the same standards of conduct as all other members, if not more so.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Just did a google search with no article detailing what he did.

Why is he an apostate now?

[metalbot]

2. LDS isn't going to release that

It's almost certainly a misconduct issue in his personal life, since the article mentions that it's not for some form of heresy.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. The LDS Church said it wasn't due to apostasy or disillusionment.

So, who knows what he did.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Yeah, I read this article and it wasn't clear to me what his horrible crime was...

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Has to be darn serious,

Checked the Salt City Tribune nada. Gender Identity issue? Time will tell.