Attorney and lay theologian
Paul James Toscano
b. 1946
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The September Six
Attorney and lay theologian
A Salt Lake City lawyer and co-founder of the Mormon Alliance, Toscano published 'A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love not Power' in the same Dialogue issue as Anderson's chronology. His August 1993 Sunstone address, 'All Is Not Well in Zion: False Teachings of the True Church,' was transcribed from a purchased cassette and became the focus of his 19 September 1993 council. His wife Margaret Toscano was excommunicated in 2000 for her writing on Heavenly Mother and women's ordination.
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Dialogue publishes the chronology and the Mormon Alliance announcement
Dialogue 26:1 carried Anderson's chronology, Richard D. Poll's supporting response, Paul Toscano's 'A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love not Power,' and a letter co-signed by Anderson and Janice Allred announcing the Mormon Alliance, an organisation to document what it called spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse. The issue won Dialogue's Lowell L. Bennion Essay Award for the year.
Paul Toscano and Maxine Hanks are excommunicated
About a hundred people kept vigil in the Cottonwood stake centre parking lot from six in the morning. Toscano asked that the proceedings be public, that his witnesses and his wife be present throughout, and that an independent party take notes; all four requests were denied. The council worked from a transcript it had made of a cassette of his Sunstone address. Hanks, who had edited Women and Authority, was excommunicated the same day.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the outcomeshinge
'Three men and three women have been charged with apostasy for their writing and speaking about Mormon subjects. Paul Toscano, Avraham Gileadi, D. Michael Quinn, Maxine Hanks and Lavina Fielding Anderson were excommunicated. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides was disfellowshiped.' The story ran on the eve of general conference; the New York Times put the affair on its front page and National Public Radio carried comments from Dallin H. Oaks.
The appeals are denied; more councils follow
The appeals of Anderson, Whitesides and Toscano were all denied. Anderson's stake president wrote that Church leaders had 'deliberated and pondered carefully and concluded that there was no reason to alter the decision.' She told the Tribune: 'I read the words. I believed they were written sincerely. But somehow, it doesn't feel like love.' David P. Wright declined to attend his council in February and was excommunicated; Brent Metcalfe and Michael Barrett were also expelled.
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Spiritual Paths After September 1993
Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Paul James Toscano, Maxine Hanks, D. Michael Quinn and Lavina Fielding Anderson
Five of the six speaking together ten years afterward about what they decided, what it cost and where it took them.
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