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| − | According to [[Gordon B. Hinckley|President Hinckley]] there is no such thing as a "Mormon fundamentalist," since this implies that the person somehow adheres more fully to the principles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints than its actual members, which such a person is not. 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]].
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| − | The Church is centered on the border of Utah and Arizona and has built a temple in Texas. There has been no individual ownership of the property, as the Church holds all property in an attempt to live the [[United Order]]. Litigation is under way to try to reassign property rights to individuals.
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| − | Polygamy a the central doctrine of the Church, and it practices "placement" of women into arranged marriages at the direction of the leaders of the Church. Men are expected to take at least three wives to fulfill the commandment of plural marriage.
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| − | :Until 2007, the church was led by Warren Jeffs, who succeeded his father Rulon Jeffs in 2002. For nearly two years, Warren Jeffs had been wanted on sex-crimes charges; and from May 2004 until his arrest in August 2006 he was on the FBI's Ten Most-Wanted List. On September 25, 2007, Jeffs was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to rape and was sentenced to ten years to life in prison. He formally resigned as the president of the FLDS Church on November 20, 2007.
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| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints Wikipedia article]
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