I'm not informed about Mormonism. In fact, I just did a Google search to see if there are any churches in my area, and there are.
http//www.whatloveisthis.tv
I was where you are - when a couple of years ago I looked up on the TV and saw the rescue in progress.
I read all the books - Carolyn Jessop, Elissa Wall and even some of the ones written by the LeBarons - the Mexico faction. (His Favorite Wife and Shattered Dreams)
But - Doris Hanson on what love is this - contrasts Mormon beliefs with those of Christianity. She also covers polygamy. You can stream each hour on the internet when you have time. Well worth it.
20 years ago, in order to have your name removed, you had to go through a ‘bishops court’ and be excommunicated. A man in AZ sued claiming slander and defemation in the early 1990’s and won and forced a change.
Now, offically all you have to do is send a letter (preferably one of the letters online and cc a law office) to SLC and your local congregation. You have to specify no contact or you will recive visits and letters asking you to reconsider and informing you that your ‘blessings’ of baptism and such are REVOKED (they use the term revoked).
When I left, I had moved and had to go through the process of having my local records located and transferred to my local congregation and then deal with the name removal locally, then after several months I was still receiving phone calls asking for my current information so members of the congregation could come visit me. A letter from my lawyer finally resolved the situation.
From what I have heard, it is easier now to get it done without jumping through their hoops, but a lot of people don’t bother with it and so are still officially members of the LDS church.
There is a LOT of info in FR archives.
We go round and round with MORMONs all the time on FR, but not so much as in the past, for a lot of them managed to get themselves zotted: some from the Big Guy himself!
There is a group known as the Flying Inmen, that regularly post MORMONism information that SLC would REALLY like never to be brought up again.