[Logophile]

Shunning is often used as a pejorative term to describe any organizationally mandated disassociation, and has acquired a connotation of abuse and relational aggression.

Exactly.

According to the definition you have provided here, LDS Church discipline does not involve shunning. The Church does not mandate or even recommend that its members disassociate themselves from those who have been placed on probation, disfellowshipped, or excommunicated. Nor does it mandate or recommend such treatment of those who leave the Church, either temporarily or permanently.

In fact, the LDS Church goes out of its way to avoid public embarrassment of persons who have been disciplined. (The only exceptions I have witnessed personally involved persons who were deemed to be a threat to others.) The hope is always that the person will reconsider and return to full fellowship in the Church.

[greyfoxx39]

Go back and read my posts. I said that the members practiced shunning. Have you a recent order by leadership to members forbidding the shunning of "Apostates" by members?

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(The only exceptions I have witnessed personally involved persons who were deemed to be a threat to others.)

Exactly what kind of "threat"? I asked you earlier what kind of a "danger"? Persons who carried weapons? Or, is this mandate to the members a method by which they can interpret the "danger" being the teaching of "Unapproved doctrine" to unsuspecting members?