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| − | According to President Hinckley there should be no such thing as Mormon fundamentalists, since this last word is usually associated with intolerant behaviors. However, members of a splinter group of the official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints call themselves The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). It is the world's largest group of such type; it may also be America's largest practitioner of plural marriage. The FLDS Church is not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from which it split in the late 1890s after the true LDS Church renounced polygamy. | + | According to [[Gordon B. Hinckley|President Hinckley]] there should be no such thing as Mormon fundamentalists, since this last word is usually associated with intolerant behaviors. However, members of a splinter group of the official [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] call themselves The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). It is the world's largest group of such type; it may also be America's largest practitioner of plural marriage. The FLDS Church is not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from which it split in the late 1890s after the true LDS Church renounced [[polygamy]]. |
Revision as of 17:52, 7 August 2007
According to President Hinckley there should be no such thing as Mormon fundamentalists, since this last word is usually associated with intolerant behaviors. However, members of a splinter group of the official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints call themselves The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). It is the world's largest group of such type; it may also be America's largest practitioner of plural marriage. The FLDS Church is not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from which it split in the late 1890s after the true LDS Church renounced polygamy.
