Excommunication
 

My question is how long does the process take? Assuming he met with the Stake President today will he be excommunicated by the end of the week or will it take longer. Further, because of his status in the church will they be announcing this over the pulpit?

I would think that regardless of how long it took, that it would be something that the Stake would try to push through quietly.

I wonder why a person in his shoes would accept such a calling. Or did the stake president's inspired, prayerful decision to call him come before the affairs commenced?

I've never seen something like this announced over the pulpit, but you never know.

It will probably take a little longer than a week, but not too long.

What fun is that?

There was a prominent SP in Salt Lake, part of his prominence was because he was the SP for many of the GA's. One of my friends was in his Stake and he said he was the toughest SP he had ever had when it came to chastity. He constantly harped on it and was very tough on the subject in Temple Recommend interviews.

He had an affair and was allowed to apologize at a Stake Conference. My friend said he felt like he was watching a Jimmy Swaggert rerun. I like it better when these guys repent and go through the process quietly and on their own.

It depends, but typically from a couple of weeks to around a month or so. Letters of notification, everyone arranging schedules, a little paperwork.

They guy in Arizona, who taped his church court, apparently his excommunication was announced over the pulpit in all the wards of his stake.

It was already all over the internet, thanks to the guy that taped his own excommunication.

There's ALWAYS a question whether he will be exed. His public position makes it a little more likely but when none of us know the details, we can't know how things will go down. I've been surprised (pleasantly) by several cases of people I've known who were not ex'ed. It seems that the Church is moving away from automatic excomunication.

Also, in both of the recent cases I've known, the process has taken several (3-4) months. It's true that if schedules align, they could do it quickly, but in both of these cases, the stake president wanted to take time to get to know the person, the circumstances, the efforts at repentance, etc. I think that's wise.