Has anyone found confirmation of Chad Daybell being ex-communicated from LDS Church?
I keep searching MSM for another source other than DM and cannot find anything.
LDS Social Media is IMO all over the map on the issue (non TOS) so I am unsure what the correct answer is about the LDS status of Chad Daybell.
I find it extremely suspect that the Daily Mail said this and have no reason, given their general credibility, to believe it.
The Mormon church is basically NEVER going to put out a press release saying "we've kicked So and So to the curb by excommunicating him and this is why" or anything even close to that. There are two ways that I've seen where this information becomes public.
The first is the person in question announces it. Sure, someone could claim it happened to them and have it not be true. That may have happened, but I'm confident I've never seen it. Most often this public announcement of it happening is someone like Julie Rowe or someone else who has a following. In some instances they even make it known that they are having an excommunication hearing (not sure if that's the right term, but it gives the right idea) and in some of these cases lately I've even seen them have a vigil of supporters in the church parking lot and live streaming of supporters in the parking lot and the person in question coming out and saying "yup, they exed me" when it is over.
The normal way for this to happen is someone to not say anything except maybe spouse or close family members, but ward members notice them attending church, but not taking the sacrament. If that happens once or twice, there are other reasons, but if it happens over a long period, it will be perceived as excommunication or disfellowship (kind of the same, but not quite as serious).
What it comes down to is that the Daily Mail almost surely made this up, in my mind. This based on me taking it on faith that the poster here who says he is a ward member being as stated. He or she has said that Chad hasn't been to church since Tammy's death and up to that point was there every week and acting in his assigned church calling.