Sam Young, the former Mormon who was excommunicated for “deliberately attacking and publicly opposing the church” in his campaign to end bishops’ one-on-one youth interviews, has learned that his appeal of that disciplinary decision has been rejected.
The Houston stake president, a regional lay leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told Young of his appeal’s outcome Sunday while standing in a hallway at the church he once attended.
The leader did not give Young any notice in writing and said none would be forthcoming.
That is “consistent with the process for an appeal to the [governing] First Presidency,” church spokesman Eric Hawkins wrote Monday in an email to The Salt Lake Tribune.