Editing September Six (section)

=== Paul Toscano ===
Paul Toscano is a Salt Lake City attorney who co-authored, with Margaret Merrill Toscano, a controversial book, ''Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology'' (1990), and in 1992, he co-founded [[Mormon Alliance|The Mormon Alliance]]. He later wrote the book'' The Sanctity of Dissent'' (1994) and its sequel, ''The Sacrament of Doubt'' (2007).

He was excommunicated from the LDS Church on September 19, 1993. The reasons for his excommunication, as reportedly given by church leaders, were apostasy and false teaching. According to Toscano, the actual reason was insubordination in refusing to curb his sharp criticism of Church leaders' preference for legalism, ecclesiastical tyranny, white-washed Mormon history, and hierarchical authoritarianism, which privilege the image of the corporate church above its commitment to its members, to the teachings and the revelations of founder [[Joseph Smith]], and to the gospel of Jesus Christ.<ref>{{cite book |last=Toscano |first= Paul |chapter="The Sanctity of Dissent" |title= Dissent and the Failure of Leadership |editor1=Stephen Banks |editor2=Joanne B. Ciulla|editor2-link=Joanne B. Ciulla| series=New Horizons in Leadership Studies |publisher=Edward Elgar |location=Northampton, MA |year=2008 |pages=169–181 |isbn=978-1-84720-575-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Bf272AsIDwC&q=Dissent+and+the+Failure+of+Leadership}}</ref>

In 2007, Toscano wrote that he lost his faith "like losing your eyesight after an accident." He regrets that church leaders have disregarded his criticisms of what he considers the church's growing anti-intellectualism, homophobia, misogyny, and elitism.<ref>{{cite book|last=Toscano|first=Paul|title=The Sacrament of Doubt|publisher=Signature Books|year=2007|isbn=978-1-56085-146-2|pages=147–156}}</ref>

Toscano's wife, Margaret, faced her own disciplinary council for her doctrinal and feminist views and was excommunicated on November 30, 2000. Some view her excommunication as constituting a "seventh" member of the September Six, as she was summoned in 1993, but ecclesiastical focus shifted to her husband. Margaret's discipline was delayed until 2000.<ref>[https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/audio/SL01272.mp3 ''Tidying Up Loose Ends?: The November 2000 Excommunication of Margaret Toscano''], 2001 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium, Sunstone Magazine.</ref> Margaret later wrote "The Missing Rib: The Forgotten Place of Queens and Priestesses in the Establishment of Zion" as well as the tenth chapter of ''Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion'' (2004), edited by Ann Braude.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/5528550/TOC |title=Table of Contents: Transforming the faiths of our fathers |publisher=Catalog.lib.uchicago.edu |date= 2004-06-19|access-date=2015-04-14|isbn=9781403964601 }}</ref>