Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS)

A Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) is a Mormon Fundamentalist religious denomination.

• AKA: FLDS Organization.
• Example(s):
  • Council of Friends (Wooley Group), 1932.
  • FLDS, 2002.
  • Bountiful, British Columbia FLDS Group, 2002.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Catholicism,
  • Christianity.
• See: Polygamous Cult, YFZ Ranch, Restorationism, Latter Day Saint Movement, Mormon Fundamentalism, Church of Latter Day Saints, Warren Jeffs, By Common Consent.

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Retrieved:2022-6-19.
  • The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations whose members practice polygamy. The fundamentalist Mormon movement emerged in the early 20th century, when its founding members were excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), largely because of their refusal to abandon the practice of plural marriage after it was renounced in the “Second Manifesto” (1904). The FLDS Church has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center: citing leader Warren Jeffs' opinions on “blacks, women, gays, violence and the end of the world"; and called them "a white supremacist, homophobic, antigovernment, totalitarian cult". The group has been called a “polygamous cult".

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