I think it is a myth that one cannot be excommunicated if one has received the 'higher' ordinances. We have apostles and seventies like Amasa Lyman, John W. Taylor, Richard Lyman and George P. Lee, who were excommunicated. It is likely that they had received the second anointing. There is nothing in the Handbook that says that any ordinance would make one immune to excommunication.LukeAir2008 wrote: ↑June 30th, 2017, 6:28 pm Interestingly, the man who had received the 'higher' ordinances in the Preston Temple and who then revealed explicit details of what had taken place and who stated that he knew the Church was false, has not been excommunicated and cannot be excommunicated.
The man you are speaking of, had been inactive for years before he went public with his experience. If I recall right, he was living in Malta at the time. It is likely that the branch president there had no idea who he was and what he was doing.