(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Sam Young speaks during a news conference Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Young, a Mormon man who led a campaign criticizing the church's practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youths by lay leaders, has been kicked out of the faith. Young read a verdict letter for the first time Sunday that had been delivered to him after an earlier disciplinary council with local church leaders in Houston. Young, a 65-year-old lifelong Mormon, becomes the third high-profile member of the faith who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
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