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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One in four people in the U.S. said in a recent poll that they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who is Mormon, an ominous sign for Republican contender Mitt Romney.
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As he seeks to become the first Mormon U.S. president, Republican Mitt Romney faces a dilemma in courting conservative Christians who often dismiss his religion as a cult but now could decide his political fate.
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The smiles should be wider than the Wasatch Mountains this week at The Y., as they call Brigham Young University. The Cougars are coming off a triumph of Biblical proportion over Notre Dame, in
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney embraced his association with Christian conservative Bob Jones III Thursday despite Jones' sharp criticism of the Mormon faith central to Romney's life.
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The LDS Church has bought a large part of a western Nebraska ranch, becoming one of the state&#39;s largest landowners. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently paid $17.
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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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A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra &#151; the birthplace of the Mormon religion &#151; will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction.
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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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Mormonism's home is America, but most of its believers don't live here anymore.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt  Romney touched on his Mormon faith on Friday to a mostly  evangelical audience of social conservatives as he and other  Republican contenders in the 2008 White House race tried to woo  them at a Washington gathering of "values voters."
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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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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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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A fundamentalist Mormon who married his 14-year-old cousin cried on Wednesday and said he felt "really bad" about the end of their relationship at the center of a trial highlighting a breakaway sect that practices polygamy.
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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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Mitt Romney isn't the only casualty in his failed presidential bid. The Mormon church, yearning for broad acceptance, also took a beating.
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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.