Leaving the Mormon Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) can be a lengthy and involved process.
If you have decided that you no longer want to be a member of the Church, leaving on your own can lead to unwanted contact with Church leaders and frequent questioning. Often the application for resignation is not processed until years later or not at all. With our help, you can resign from the Church quickly and easily, and Church leaders are prohibited from contacting you during the resignation. We are happy to support you free of charge in leaving the Mormon Church.
Why should I leave the Mormons?
The Mormon Church stores a lot of sensitive information about you - eg your name, address, date of birth, telephone number if you have had children during membership, as well as your children's names and dates of birth. In addition, church data such as your baptism date, dates of temple ceremonies, attendance records are kept, members and missionaries are given your data to visit you and write you letters. You will be talked about in church meetings about how to get you back into the Church. When your children turn 8, the church will attempt to contact you to baptize your children.
The church has issued instructions on how parishioners should find out your address etc. in order to contact you.
Here onelinkto the English site of the Church where these are listed.
It is described that you should drive to the last known address and ask the neighbors if you no longer live there. You should contact your friends and relatives to find out your current address, if your phone number is wrong, contact your telephone company and ask for the new number, write a letter to the old address and if you move ask for the new address, at the registration office yours get current address, search for you on Google, try to locate you on Facebook and social media, etc.
Therefore, it is important to leave the Mormon Church when you no longer identify with it.
How can I resign from the Mormon Church?
Here you will find a template for your resignation letter, which you simply add your personal data to and send to the Mormon Church.
This also includes a request in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR to completely delete your data.
Simply download the template and add your information to it.
Then email the letter to DataPrivacyOfficer@ChurchofJesusChrist.org
Put us (mormonenaustritt@gmail.com) as a copy, if possible, in order to increase the pressure on the church, and we can support you more quickly if the church causes problems.
At the same time, you can send a printed and signed version by mail to the address in the letter.
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The church now has one month to carry out and confirm your commission.
Important: Try to document the further contact process of the exit as precisely as possible. If the church or its members do not comply with the requests in your letter, you can do so in the following Complaint submit to the competent data protection authority.
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If the church does not respond to your request by the deadline, please contact us to request our template for a Complaint to obtain and submit to the competent data protection supervisory authority.
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Regarding the exit of minors, see here more information.