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Originally Posted by Tex
Possibly. I don't know what information they have access to and I'm quite sure you don't either. We've discussed this before ... for legal protection it's wise that the church keep tabs on such things. However, generally speaking it doesn't affect a person's ability to serve except in extraordinary cases.
For example, if a person was convicted (civilly) of child molestation, then excommunicated and at some point rebaptized, it is wisdom to not have that person serve in a bishop's calling. But no local annotation is made to that effect on the local record.
On the other hand, I personally know a bishop who served long and faithfully, despite having a one-night stand decades earlier for which he was excommunicated.
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Child molestation and willful rape are reasons to keep that info, but then again with the sex offenders registry, maybe the Church could just reference that.