Ordain Women’s Kate Kelly loses last appeal; husband to resign from Mormon church

c. 2014 Salt Lake Tribune

SALT LAKE CITY (RNS)  Ordain Women co-founder Kate Kelly has lost her final appeal to regain membership in the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The activist, who is pushing for female ordination to the all-male Mormon priesthood, received word Saturday from her former lay leader in Virginia that the faith’s governing First Presidency had rejected the appeal of her June 2014 excommunication from the LDS church.