Tidying Up Loose Ends?: The November 2000 Excommunication of Margaret Toscano In November 2000, Margaret Toscano’s stake president summoned her to a disciplinary council. Operating with a tightly scripted plan, he ‘proved” that she had continued to speak and publish on feminist topics even after being warned by a former stake president (who, in 1993, had excommunicated her husband, Paul) to stop. This paper will be Margaret’s description of what happened during the disciplinary council and her attempt to answer the questions: Why? Why now? And why in this way? Sponsor: The Mormon Alliance

Margaret Toscano, Daniel H. Rector, Robert A. Rees