A Funny Story From My Excommunication From The Church

[_Nomomo]

I showed up right on time to the Stakehouse for the Church excominication hearing (or whatever they are properly called) and no one else was there yet and the Stakehouse door was locked.

The first Church representative to show up was the Stake President about 25 minutes late. Oddly enough he did not have a key with him to let us in the building so we engaged in idle friendly conversation for a few minutes till when the brother who's function it was to record the minutes of the hearing showed up.

He didn't have a key to get us in either.

So.... The three of us were waiting there outside the entry to the Stakehouse having idle chitchat when the Stake President noticed as had I, that this guy was carrying with him one of those small flat cassette player\recording machines that were common back then and the Stake President asked him why he had it with him. The guy's response to the Stake President was "You asked me to be here to record the meeting".

Hilarious!!!

The Stake President trying to control the amused look on his face gently told him that that wasn't quite what he had meant by recording the meeting.

Frickin hilarious! It was all I could do to keep from completely cracking up! I had to turn my face away to hide my amusement.

This doofus must have been new to his calling ~_-

[_bcspace]

So why were you ex'd?

[_Nomomo]

Finally someone with a key to let us in showed up and once a couple other brothers arrived the excominication procedure could start about 45 minutes late with the "Recorder" "recording" the meeting. With a pen and the proper entry book that had been located and the cassette recorder left in an office somewhere. LOL!

[_Mary]

BC are you asking nomomo because you really care or because you want a reason to judge him and feel superior to him?

[_Nomomo]

So why were you ex'd?

I fortunately actually was able to get excommunicated from the Church at my own request rather than just being removed from the rolls.

I requested excommunication and was granted that request as I made the request just a little before the policy that requests for excominication be denied as they became too popular to the point that for PR reasons (as the term resignation looked and sounded much better to the record\statistics and the public) in addition to the time and effort that was being consumed by the Church Courts in the number of these self requested excommunications that were coming in that the Church stopped granting the self requested excommunications and put in place the policy that the only option open was to resign by a resignation letter and get removal from the rolls and that you could not receive an excommunication at your own request simply because you wanted to make your departure "official".

I don't know whether or not the resignation letter and process was something already being used before the time that self requested excommunications began being denied and the resignation letter process became the only option for "officially" departing the Church.

Perhaps you or someone else here who has held a position in the Church would know the answer to that question. I would be interested to know if it was or not. My granted self requested excommunication occurred very early in the 80's.