Fundamental Mormons seek recognition for polygamy
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CENTENNIAL PARK, Arizona  - When Ephraim Hammon returns home from a day of working construction near Arizona's border with Utah, he's greeted by his wife SherylLynne. And then by his wife Leah.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, whose word was considered God's will to his fundamentalist church of breakaway Mormons, was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape by forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.
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Hurdles include his Mormon faith and convincing voters of his views on social issues.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, a fugitive for nearly two years, appeared in a Utah courtroom Wednesday and said he was willing to wait several weeks for a judge to decide whether to send him to trial on charges of arranging an underage marriage.
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BEAVER DAM, Ariz. -- Mohave County sheriff's deputies say they have arrested one of the brothers of captured polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.  On Friday, deputies responded to a call about an 11-year-old boy locked inside a house in Beaver Dam. Outside the house, the officers found John B.
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Members of the polygamous sect led by self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs never wanted the spotlight. As a jury decides if Jeffs is guilty of being an accomplice to rape, some are leaving town, some are living behind closed doors. And the mayor of one tiny community admits: "The reason I'm talking to you is because I've run into you and I don't really have a choice."
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. - The U.S. Senate's top Democrat called Tuesday for a federal investigation into the activities of polygamists in Western states.  Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said in a letter to U.S.
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Mormonism's home is America, but most of its believers don't live here anymore. In the past 13 years the church has flourished as never before around the world, with new temples rising in Africa and South America and new members joining by the tens of thousands.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A young woman told a Utah court on Friday she wanted to die after being forced into sex at age 14 in a marriage arranged by one of the biggest U.S. polygamous sects.
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The death of Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley renews attention on Mitt Romney's little-known religion Â yet rather than being reluctant to discuss it, he's making a public embrace that shows some shifting political attitudes.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  The Fundamentalist LDS Church's financial empire is land rich -- but cash poor.
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MOSCOW, Jul 18 (IPS) - For more than a century, the Church of Jesus Christ  of Latter-Day Saints has been struggling to establish itself in  the former Soviet republics and parts of Eastern Europe.
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It could just be fear of Rudy Giuliani, but some evangelical leaders are seeing a savior in the GOP's great Mormon hope
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A group of gay Mormons is seeking an unprecedented meeting with the new church president and his counselors, hoping to begin a conversation and find ways to address the concerns of its members.
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By Sheena McFarland, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 14--LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the new site of LDS  Business College on Wednesday afternoon before a crowd of more than 1,000  people.
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The Warren Jeffs trial has opened a window to a generation of street kids cast out from their polygamist communities