Polygamous Mormon fundamentalists

Polygamous Mormon fundamentalists are sects devoted to Mormon fundamentalism who continue to practice plural marriage (a form of polygamy), even though that practice has been abandoned by the larger mainstream denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Most polygamous Mormon fundamentalists belong to sects that have broken from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which officially abandoned the practice in 1890. Almost invariably, the practice of plural marriage in these sects consists of polygyny, where men are married to multiple women simultaneously. According to one source there are as many as 37,000 Fundamentalist Mormons, with less than half of them living in polygamous households. http://principlevoicesofpolygamy.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/28/1176399.html

Independent polygamists

There is also a large movement of independent Mormon polygamists; former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and of the mormon fundamentalist groups, who feel called to practice the principle of plural marriage, but don't feel like anyone holds proper authority to regulate the principle. These people practice plural marriage based on the idea that if God issues a revelation to an individual regarding that individual's personal life, that it is more important to follow the individual revelation than to follow a church leader speaking generically. It is difficult to measure who these people are, but preliminary estimates indicate that there may be more independent polygamists than there are in any one formally organized polygamist group, perhaps 15,000http://principlevoicesofpolygamy.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/28/1176399.html. There is a large concentration of these independent polygamists in Utah, Arizona and Missouri. Not all of these polygamists have been formally excommunicated from the LDS church, but would be if the LDS church found out, because the church maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards plural marriage.

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