~”And you KNOW this little tidbit, how?”~
Because I’m an expert on the subject of the LDS Church. People are not excommunicated for a difference of opinion.
If a person expands that difference of opinion to the point of working to undermine the Church, then that person does risk excommunication if he or she persists. But opinions within the Church are many and varied.
Warren Jeffs group has a 'difference of opinion' over whether polygamy was REALLY abolished by GOD, and yet THESE folks don't even get the courtesy of being called 'Mormons' by LDS headquarters in SLC.