In a letter, Kate Kelly says that her excommunication from the LDS Church “was shameful, and potentially actionable.”
Kate Kelly, in yellow, with supporters in June.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
In a letter posted Wednesday, Kelly argues that she should not have been cast out of the Mormon church — officially The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — last month. Kelly was excommunicated after publicly advocating for female ordination to the church's all-male lay priesthood.
In the letter, Kelly asks Washington, D.C., church leaders to "do the right thing" and to consider her appeal "with humility and openness." She also asserts that she has "done nothing wrong," adding later, "I am, and have always been, a faithful Mormon."
Kelly includes numerous reasons she believes her excommunication was unfair. These are a few of her arguments:
• Her church leaders never asked her "one single question regarding my feelings about female ordination."
• The meeting in which Kelly was excommunicated — a kind of church trial called a "disciplinary council" — was held without her being present.
• Her local church leaders had "no authority to control my views, voice or speech and no right to compel me into silence."
• Church leaders' refused to guarantee that the excommunication proceedings would be kept confidential, which Kelly called "potentially actionable."
Kelly and members of Ordain Women are denied access to an all-male Mormon meeting.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File
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