Ordain Women co-founder Kate Kelly has lost her final bid to regain membership in the Utah-based LDS Church. The activist, who is pushing for female ordination to the all-male Mormon priesthood, received word Saturday from her former lay leader in Virginia that the faithâs governing First Presidency had rejected the appeal of her June 2014 excommunication from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. âI am disappointed in the outcome, but not surprised since the disciplinary process has ...