Religion is a private organisation, they can kick them out if they want to.
As long as they are not criminally harassing their apostates I could care less.
Scientology is very Harsh to their apostates, they shoudl be prosecuted for some ot the crasp they pulled as wel as islamics and probably some mormon sects...
mormonISM is equally harsh to people who leave
In addition mormonS say this never happens
While legally they CAN excommunicate them (unless they have already submitted a letter of resignation then it is defamation), it doesn’t make it right. As I posted above, I know some of those being disciplined and they have not violated any rules or teachings of the LDS church, this is a witch hunt and about control. Furthermore, the LDS church has lied publicly about it not coming from the SLC leadership AND the local leadership is the one violating LDS church policy and their Handbook of Instructions. These faithful members are being railroaded.
Finally, these members ARE being harassed and at least 2 (there are actually 12 who are/were disciplined in this purge) have received death threats.