Survey shows fundamentalist Mormon numbers up Unaffiliated » Thousands claim no group affiliation. By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 09/26/2009 05:59:14 PM MDT An informal survey shows there are 38,000 fundamentalist Mormons in the U.S., Canada and Mexico — up by 1,000. “It is a conservative figure but that’s the approximate figure for now,” [...]
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 [...]
Despite differing in many respects now from its earlier teachings and practices, the LDS Church still has much in common with fundamentalist Mormons (which is founded in early Mormonism). Both groups share a belief in the same set of scriptures – the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. [...]
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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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.
BRIAN PASSEY • bpassey@thespectrum.com • July 5, 2008 Original Article Those who worship with The Work of Jesus Christ in Centennial Park have to be prepared to preach on a moment’s notice. During a priesthood meeting for male members of the church on June 21 the men were told to wear their “preaching clothes” to [...]
by BRIAN PASSEY • bpassey@thespectrum.com • June 28, 2008 Original Article They believe in plural marriage. They live near the Utah/Arizona border. But they have nothing to do with Warren Jeffs and his FLDS Church. Those belonging to the Work of Jesus Christ in Centennial Park, just across the highway from Colorado City, believe they [...]
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 [...]
Love Your Lawyer Suit! Publish Date: July 1, 2008 | Permanent Link Two Alpine attorneys help win back custody of hundreds of children taken by Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services in the April raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in West Texas. By Marlys Hersey, Editor “I am…an attorney with Texas Rio [...]
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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