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| ===Dissenters and Exiles===
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| {{AuthorQuote|"The church has often swatted down intellectuals individually"}}
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| *{{Detail|Mormonism and Church discipline/Scholars|l1=Excommunication of scholars}}
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| *Quote by Lavina Fielding Anderson
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| ====354 - The Church operates a clipping service called the "Strengthening Church Members Committee" to monitor individual members====
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| |title=Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
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| The Church operates a clipping service called the "Strengthening Church Members Committee" to monitor individual members, which Lavina Fielding Anderson refers to as "an internal espionage system."
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| Lavina Fielding Anderson
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| {{:Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee?}}
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| ==Response to claim: 354 - The LDS system of internal discipline "operates more like a small cult than a major denomination"==
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| The LDS system of internal discipline "operates more like a small cult than a major denomination."
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| *Author's opinion
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| {{propaganda|The statement that the Church is "like a small cult" is pejorative. See [[../#Quote manipulation|Quote manipulation]]
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| {{:Question: Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a "cult"?}}
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| ==Response to claim: 354 - The LDS Church penalizes members for "merely criticizing officialdom or for publishing truthful-if uncomfortable-information==
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| The LDS Church penalizes members for "merely criticizing officialdom or for publishing truthful—if uncomfortable—information," and "shroud their procedures with secrecy."
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| *{{Detail|Mormonism and Church discipline}} {{nw}}
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| ==Response to claim: 354 - The LDS Church prosecutes "many more of its members" than other religious groups==
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| The LDS Church prosecutes "many more of its members" than other religious groups.
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| {{propaganda|This is the author's conjecture, and is without supporting data.}}
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