For the Record - April 17, 2008
Polygamist sect: An article in the April 10 Section A, about the discovery of a bed inside a temple of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said the sect broke away from the Mormon Church in the 1930s after the latter banned polygamy. The Mormon Church outlawed polygamy in 1890. The FLDS was later founded by former Mormons who had been excommunicated for continuing to practice polygamy after the 1890 ban. The sect’s founders believed polygamy was a core principle in the teachings of Mormonism founder Joseph Smith.
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