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Winston Blackmore (born August 25, 1956) [1] is the leader of a polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint religious group in Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada. He is described as "Canada's best-known avowed polygamist". [2] He has 150 children with his 27 "spiritual" wives, some of whom he has admitted were underage. [3] [4]
Area code (s) 250, 778. Bountiful is a settlement in the Creston Valley of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, near Cranbrook and Creston. The closest community is Lister, British Columbia . Bountiful is made up of members of two polygamist Mormon fundamentalist groups. The settlement is named after Bountiful in the Book of Mormon .
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [ 8]
t. e. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, privately taught and practiced polygamy. [1] After Smith's death in 1844, the church he established splintered into several competing groups. Disagreement over Smith's doctrine of "plural marriage" has been among the primary reasons for multiple church schisms .
Latter Day Saints portal. v. t. e. Possibly as early as the 1830s, followers of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism ), were practicing the doctrine of polygamy or "plural marriage". After the death of church founder Joseph Smith, the doctrine was officially announced in Utah Territory in 1852 by Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Church of Jesus Christ Restored. The Church of Jesus Christ Restored is a small sect in the Latter Day Saint movement based at Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada. [2] The church was founded in the late 1960s by Stanley M. King and is currently led by his son, Fred King. It reportedly has under 40 members, down from a high of around 80.
t. e. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (abbreviated to FLDS and not to be confused with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations [3] [4] whose members practice polygamy. [5] It is variously defined as a cult, a sect, or a new religious movement.
April 29, 2022 at 2:18 PM. Dustin Lance Black first picked up a copy of “Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" nearly two decades ago. For someone who was raised in a ...