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Article: STILL FAITHFUL TO THE ROOTS OF MORMONISM.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2008
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Byline: KIMBERLY WINSTON
By Kimberly Winston
Religion News Service
When more than 400 children were removed from a fundamentalist Mormon compound in Eldorado, Texas, early this month, the raid prompted two big questions: Who are these people, and how are they different from mainstream Mormons?
The roots and beliefs of the Texas sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - referred to as FLDS - go back to the founding of mainstream Mormonism in the 19th century.
In the 1840s, Mormon prophet Joseph Smith taught that "plural marriage" was given to him in a divine revelation, ordained by God as sacred. As Mormons migrated westward, ...
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