This is a list of well-known
Mormon dissidents or other members of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who have either been
excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS and those inactive individuals who are on record as not believing and/or not participating in the church. While the church doesn't regularly provide information about excommunication or resignation, those listed here have made such information public. In a very few cases, the list below may include former adherents of other
Latter Day Saint movement denominations who have ceased identifying as members of the Church, as well.
Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate[59][87][60]
Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor[88]
Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate[89]
Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author[90]
^Thunell, Pete (28 November 2000).
"Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends". Daily Universe. Brigham Young University.
Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020. I first heard this one out in New York when a friend told me Aguilera's parents met at BYU and her father was a member out on Staten Island. I did a little research on some of her Web sites (which proved to be pretty embarrassing in the newsroom) and found out her parents' names were Fausto and Shelly. I called up the BYU Alumni Association and found out that a Fausto Aguilera and his wife Shelly were at BYU in 1979. The best address I could find for Fausto was Staten Island which, coincidentally, is where Christina was born in 1980 (according to Rolling Stone, her parents later split up when she was seven). ... "Larry" got me the number of Christina's old home teacher, Tom Duty, back when she was nine and living in Pennsylvania.
^Kim, Chuck (June 25, 2002). "Sex, guys, and videotape: "reality" filmmaker Dustin Lance Black talks about turning the camera on himself—and on five young gay men out for fun—in On the Bus". The Advocate.
^left the church with his family when they moved to Nebraska; George Thomas Kurian, American Studies Association, Encyclopedia of American studies, Volume 3, 142 (Grolier Educational, Nov 1, 2001)
^"When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Legacy of Utah Composer Leigh Harline. Sandra Dawn Brimhall and Dawn Retta Brimhall. Utah Historical Quarterly. Vol. 85, no.2 ,
^Bagley, Will. "Always A Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad." Salt Lake City [Utah]: University of Utah Press, 2008.
^
abGreene, David.
"Misty Snow Aims To Be The Nation's First Transgender Senator". npr.org. KUER 90.1.
Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2020-07-01. Snow: You know, I was raised LDS myself so I kind of know that culture. Most of my family's LDS. A lot of my friends are LDS. ... I didn't, like, have a lot of support to transition when I was younger, so I ended up doing it kind of more, like, a more - like, over the last few years. ... Yeah. When I was, like (unintelligible) I didn't have support from my mother to transition and, you know, so I put that off for a long time.
^
abCanham, Matt (29 June 2016).
"Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Democrats' transgender Senate nominee". The Salt Lake Tribune.
Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020. Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee from a major party to run for a U.S. Senate seat and she is among the first transgender people to run for Congress.
^"Freethought Today, March 2004". 26 May 2012. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2016.{{
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link)
^Kimball, Edward L. (2005), Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, p. 75
^Rory Carroll (21 June 2013).
"Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Guardian News and Media Limited.
Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014. Thorne grew up in an academic, Mormon family in Utah but is now an atheist. "There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God, ranging from an abstract humanist God to a very concrete Catholic or Mormon God. There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God."
^Conscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion. Robert Alan Goldberg, L. Jackson Newell, Linda King Newell. University of Utah Press, 2018.
^Perry, James M., reporter, National Observer, "This Fella from Arizona", in Audubon, November 1981, pp. 64-73, National Audubon Society, as reproduced on the Morris K. Udall website section -- MS 325 -- of the University of Arizona Library Manuscript Collection, retrieved July 23, 2018
^
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September Six were six LDS (Mormons) members who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped in September 1993 for speaking against Church doctrine and leadership. See also
Mormon Alliance.
^Ronald G. Watt (2000). "Watt, George D.". In Arnold K. Garr; Donald Q. Cannon; Richard O. Cowan (eds.). Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
This is a list of well-known
Mormon dissidents or other members of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who have either been
excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS and those inactive individuals who are on record as not believing and/or not participating in the church. While the church doesn't regularly provide information about excommunication or resignation, those listed here have made such information public. In a very few cases, the list below may include former adherents of other
Latter Day Saint movement denominations who have ceased identifying as members of the Church, as well.
Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate[59][87][60]
Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor[88]
Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate[89]
Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author[90]
^Thunell, Pete (28 November 2000).
"Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends". Daily Universe. Brigham Young University.
Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020. I first heard this one out in New York when a friend told me Aguilera's parents met at BYU and her father was a member out on Staten Island. I did a little research on some of her Web sites (which proved to be pretty embarrassing in the newsroom) and found out her parents' names were Fausto and Shelly. I called up the BYU Alumni Association and found out that a Fausto Aguilera and his wife Shelly were at BYU in 1979. The best address I could find for Fausto was Staten Island which, coincidentally, is where Christina was born in 1980 (according to Rolling Stone, her parents later split up when she was seven). ... "Larry" got me the number of Christina's old home teacher, Tom Duty, back when she was nine and living in Pennsylvania.
^Kim, Chuck (June 25, 2002). "Sex, guys, and videotape: "reality" filmmaker Dustin Lance Black talks about turning the camera on himself—and on five young gay men out for fun—in On the Bus". The Advocate.
^left the church with his family when they moved to Nebraska; George Thomas Kurian, American Studies Association, Encyclopedia of American studies, Volume 3, 142 (Grolier Educational, Nov 1, 2001)
^"When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Legacy of Utah Composer Leigh Harline. Sandra Dawn Brimhall and Dawn Retta Brimhall. Utah Historical Quarterly. Vol. 85, no.2 ,
^Bagley, Will. "Always A Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad." Salt Lake City [Utah]: University of Utah Press, 2008.
^
abGreene, David.
"Misty Snow Aims To Be The Nation's First Transgender Senator". npr.org. KUER 90.1.
Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2020-07-01. Snow: You know, I was raised LDS myself so I kind of know that culture. Most of my family's LDS. A lot of my friends are LDS. ... I didn't, like, have a lot of support to transition when I was younger, so I ended up doing it kind of more, like, a more - like, over the last few years. ... Yeah. When I was, like (unintelligible) I didn't have support from my mother to transition and, you know, so I put that off for a long time.
^
abCanham, Matt (29 June 2016).
"Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Democrats' transgender Senate nominee". The Salt Lake Tribune.
Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020. Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee from a major party to run for a U.S. Senate seat and she is among the first transgender people to run for Congress.
^"Freethought Today, March 2004". 26 May 2012. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2016.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (
link)
^Kimball, Edward L. (2005), Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, p. 75
^Rory Carroll (21 June 2013).
"Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Guardian News and Media Limited.
Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014. Thorne grew up in an academic, Mormon family in Utah but is now an atheist. "There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God, ranging from an abstract humanist God to a very concrete Catholic or Mormon God. There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God."
^Conscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion. Robert Alan Goldberg, L. Jackson Newell, Linda King Newell. University of Utah Press, 2018.
^Perry, James M., reporter, National Observer, "This Fella from Arizona", in Audubon, November 1981, pp. 64-73, National Audubon Society, as reproduced on the Morris K. Udall website section -- MS 325 -- of the University of Arizona Library Manuscript Collection, retrieved July 23, 2018
^
abcdThe
September Six were six LDS (Mormons) members who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped in September 1993 for speaking against Church doctrine and leadership. See also
Mormon Alliance.
^Ronald G. Watt (2000). "Watt, George D.". In Arnold K. Garr; Donald Q. Cannon; Richard O. Cowan (eds.). Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.