Paul Toscano

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Paul Toscano is an attorney and theologian who was one of the September Six, a group of LDS intellectuals excommunicated or disfellowshipped in September 1993. He was co-founder of the Mormon Alliance, which documented ecclesiastical abuse. His excommunication was for apostasy following his public criticisms of church leadership.

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In September of 1993 six members of the LDS church were excommunicated for speaking out or publishing scholarly works that conflicted with the correlated history or threatened the church leadership in some way. They collectively came to be known as the “September Six”. These individuals were Lynne Whitesides, Avraham Gileadi, Paul Toscano, Maxine Hanks, Lavina Anderson, and D. Michael Quinn. Dubbed the “September Six,” the group were mostly left-leaning writers and scholars who had published articles or given talks about the role of women in Mormonism and the way the church’s leaders handle dissent. | wasmormon.org