Correction.
There was an incorrect statement in the article "Divine Discrimination: Mormons Mormons: see Latter-day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of. and Women's Rights at the UN" in the January/February 2003 issue of the Humanist. The sentence "The LDS church, though it claims a `heavenly mother' in its theology, in practice won't even permit public discussion of Lawal by members without the threat of excommunication excommunication, formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by social ostracism, as in the case of Baruch Spinoza, excommunicated by the Jews. In Christianity the Roman Catholic Church especially retains excommunication; the church maintains that the spiritual separation of the offender from the body of the faithful takes place by the nature of" was incorrect. Lawal was the name of a woman mentioned elsewhere in the article and not the heavenly mother. So the name Lawal should have been replaced by: "her (the heavenly mother)."
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