https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Mormon_Church_Handbook_of_Instructions,_2006 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/09/mormon-rebel-went-to-wikile... r-help.html Mormon Rebel Went to WikiLeaks for Help When a female member of the Mormon Church was being accused of apostasy, she was unable to see the documents that detailed the rules she was accused of breaking. When Kate Kelly, founder of the Mormon feminist group Ordain Women, was accused of apostasy, she couldnt readily access the Church Handbook of Instructions, Volume 1, for the definition. So Kelly and Nadine Hansen, a lawyer representing her in her hearings, had to turn elsewhere. "The only way that women can access that volume is by accessing it online at WikiLeaks, Kelly told The Daily Beast. Before Church insiders began leaking Latter Day Saint videos and documents through the so-called MormonLeaks, WikiLeaks was an unlikely ally for church members looking for ease of access to restricted texts. And while the online organizations religious troublemaking is best known for its expose of Scientology, it also revealed previously unavailable documents from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Fellowship of Friends, and other organizations. The Mormon Church didnt take the leaks quietly. They tried to fight distribution by claiming copyright infringement. (WikiLeaks will not remove the handbooks, which are of substantial interest to current and former mormons, a representative of the group said at the time.) It is frankly annoying, as a woman, to be told, in a patronizing fashion, that I'm not allowed to see and read the CHI for myself, but that it has to be interpreted for me by a male priesthood holder,...