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elderolddog
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Date: January 27, 2020 06:07PM
A Q-15 consorting with a Woman of the Night? How Christ-like!
They didn't really 'do it'. She was just lonely.
Here are the available facts regarding the last apostle to be excommunicated, Richard R. Lyman:
In 1943, the First Presidency discovered that Lyman had long been cohabiting with a woman other than his legal wife (to whom he'd been married since 1896!).
In 1925, Lyman began his relationship with Anna Jacobsen Hegsted, which he defined as a plural marriage. Unable to trust anyone to officiate at the wedding due to the church's ban on the practice, Lyman and Hegsted exchanged vows secretly. By 1943, both were in their seventies.
(The word on the street is that J. Rueben Clark caught wind of the matter and ordered the then SLC Chief of Police to investigate. Lyman was followed to his 2nd wife's residence where the coppers allowed the couple to get settled in for the night, then burst into the residence and arrested Lyman, in his comfy PJs.)
Lyman was excommunicated on November 12, 1943, at age 72; at the time, his legal wife, Amy B. Lyman, was the general president of the Relief Society.
(Here I think it's interesting: Did 1st wife, Amy (I just shuddered...) know about the second wife? Of course she did! WTF, man! He was spending nights with the 2nd wife! Was she cool with it? ...That I can't answer. But if she had ratted him out, she had to know she would lose her social standing and become 'pitied.')
The Quorum of the Twelve provided the newspapers with a one-sentence announcement, stating that the grounds for excommunication was a violation of the law of chastity, which was the standard interpretation of new plural marriages performed since the 1904 Second Manifesto. (Plural marriages performed between the First Manifesto in 1890 and the Second Manifesto were tolerated by the church.)
After the excommunication, J. Reuben Clark worried that Lyman might join the Mormon fundamentalist movement.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_R._LymanBut he didn't: "Lyman was rebaptized in 1954 at age 83, and his full priesthood blessings were restored posthumously in 1970. (He died in 1963)"
--ibid.
One is forced to ponder, was Lyman a member of the Order of the 2nd Anointing? If he was, then the sin next to murder gets you ex'd and you lose the 2nd Anointing's force and effect!
The same for James Hamula...
So the answer to your question seems to be that sexual relations outside the bonds of temple matrimony will get you Exed and you'll lose the blessings of the 2nd Annoying...
That's my best guess!