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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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.
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ATHENS -- During yesterday's celebration of the assumption of the Virgin Mary, the Greek orthodox clergy had a stern reminder for the organizers of the Olympic Games: No matter what the advertisements and speeches say about Greece's modern, Western orientation, this country is still the domain of its decidedly traditional, ubiquitous state-sanctioned religion. Speaking over the Byzantine chants of a ...
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Mitt Romney's challenge will be to explain a faith that remains mysterious to many
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  Now that Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is in custody, people trapped in abusive situations within the isolated polygamous sect may have a chance to break free.
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By Carrie A. Moore Deseret Morning News  Pastors representing more than 40 evangelical Christian churches and 16 different denominations in Utah gathered for a press conference Tuesday to literally display a new sign of unity among them despite their doctrinal differences.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - Attorneys for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is on trial as an accomplice to rape, said on Friday that "religion was on trial" and the state had overstepped its bounds in bringing the case.
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The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
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An executive for one of the nation's leading evangelical groups says in a video voter guide that Mitt Romney has "acknowledged Mormonism is not a Christian faith," although the GOP presidential candidate has said he follows Jesus Christ and his church insists it is Christian.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  Police and prosecutors traveled to the Fundamentalist LDS Church's enclave in Eldorado, Texas, to talk with local law enforcement about the capture of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and the future of his followers.
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PROVO -- A Latin American studies lecture, "Latter-day Saints Under Siege: The Unique Experience of Nicaraguan Mormons," will be given Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Herald R. Clark Building at Brigham Young University.
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WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court is to decide the constitutionality of displays of the Ten Commandments on government property in what could be the most important church-state ruling of its term.
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A federal grand jury indicted the leader of a polygamous sect Wednesday, accusing him of fleeing to avoid prosecution on Utah sex charges. The one-count indictment covers a five-month period in 2006, although Warren Jeffs was believed to be on the run for a longer stretch before his arrest in August during a traffic stop near Las Vegas.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A Utah judge rejected a motion to dismiss charges against a self-described "prophet" of a breakaway Mormon sect that practices polygamy after prosecutors rested their case unexpectedly early on Tuesday.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  A judge is poised to sign a plan that will overhaul the Fundamentalist LDS Church's United Effort Plan Trust, which controls nearly everything in the polygamous border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
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The Warren Jeffs trial has opened a window to a generation of street kids cast out from their polygamist communities