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Sam Young has a letter letting him know if he has been excommunicated, but he’s not opening until Sunday across the street from the Salt Lake Mormon Temple

Sam Young has decided to let the world know at the same time he does whether he is being excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The former bishop — who has been campaigning to get the Utah-based faith to end one-on-one interviews between Mormon clergy and youths, sessions that sometimes include sexually explicit questions — has scheduled a news conference for noon Sunday in Salt Lake City at which he will open a letter delivered this week from church leaders explaining the faith’s verdict on his membership.

Young says in a Friday news release that the event will take place on South Temple across the street from the church’s iconic Temple Square.