User blog comment:Ty Rezac/Best states to live/@comment-7559950-20130515013204/@comment-32656-20130519054626

"Shunning" and excommunication are very different things. They are not even remotely close to being the same.

There is no "first hand accounts." Because it does not really exist. And, the fact that the state is seeing massive numbers moving to it directly contradicts that statement of yours as well.

Who said anything about them "having no influence?" I did not. They are the majority of the population, meaning that most politicians are Mormon by simple numbers. Just like a plurality of US politicians are Catholic, because the largest religious denomination in the US is Catholicism. It is wholly irrelevant.

Far as I can determine, such an expulsion never happened. And I highly doubt it did. Check facts.

You are wrong, overall - none of this ever happened.