Principle Voices and Principle Rights Coalition Committee are sponsoring a LEGISLATIVE EDUCATION DAY for Fundamentalist Mormon families Thursday, February 12, 2009 to be held at the Utah State Capitol Multipurpose Room, main floor (just inside the north door)from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon * * * * * * * * * * Welcoming remarks: [...]
Pro-polygamy group educates inside, outside their community By Ben Winslow Deseret News Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:11 a.m. MDT http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700245458,00.html?pg=1 In the face of the controversial topic of polygamy, an advocacy group is trying to build bridges between two worlds that inherently distrust each other. In the process, the pro-polygamy [...]
According to a Deseret News article today, Senator Hatch gave the following statement: “As we have seen just this year, polygamy is not merely a ‘Utah problem.’ Recent enforcement efforts have shown that polygamists have set up shop in states around the country such as Arizona, Nevada, Texas and others,” Hatch said. “I look forward [...]
There is a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing scheduled for July 24 to target the FLDS. Please follow this link for further information and a petition you can sign: http://www.voicesforthechildren.org/viewpetition.php?id=3
ABC 4 “I really respect the church’s position on it, I really do, and I feel like I understand their need to distinguish themselves from those who choose to practice polygamy today.” Mary Batchelor says that she is independent. She believes in the principle but she does not practice it, and she says, she’s Mormon. [...]
As the LDS Church tries to distance itself, polygamous groups stress their common roots By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 07/10/2008 06:05:46 AM MDT The Principle Voices Coalition statement A coalition that represents fundamentalist Mormons has issued a statement objecting to the LDS Church’s effort to deny their claim to [...]
By Ben Winslow Deseret News Published: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 2:57 p.m. MDT 12 comments RELATED CONTENT | E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + – http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700241840,00.html?pg=2 A coalition of polygamous groups is taking issue with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ objections to the term “fundamentalist Mormon.”In a statement issued Wednesday, the group [...]
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SALT LAKE CITY — By JENNIFER DOBNER
Associated Press Writer
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Polygamy-practicing fundamentalists with religious roots in early Mormon theology are rankled by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ campaign to direct the way news organizations define those sects.
“We strenuously object to any efforts to deprive us and others of the freedom to name and describe ourselves by terms of our own choosing,” the Principle Voices Coalition said in a statement issued Wednesday.
“Fundamentalist Mormons have been referred to by that name since the 1930s, often by the church itself. We are proud of our Mormon heritage.”
Fundamentalists revere the same prophets as the mainstream Mormon church, including founder Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, both of whom practiced polygamy. They also share the mainline church’s use of the Book of Mormon as a primary text, along with the Doctrine & Covenants, in which plural marriage remains part of scriptural teachings.
On June 24, a Mormon church attorney sent a letter to newspaper, magazine and broadcast media outlets asking that the term “fundamentalist Mormon” be dropped from news reports.
Hi everyone, we had a great visit to the YFZ Ranch. I, for one, was very impressed. I will be sharing some feelings about the experience soon. One thing I did notice, as Amanda Chisolm says in the article I posted below, these FLDS families are not zombies or drones or without personality. We were [...]
Hi! I wanted to take this chance to clarify some things. Centennial Park, the AUB and the Davis County Co-op have already publicly acknowledged a commitment to encourage their members to marry as adults and eschew underage marriages. This has been their policy for many years. The AUB statement was merely a reaffirmation of something [...]
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