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The FLDS follows the early teachings of Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including the practice of polygamy, which is believed to bring glorification in heaven.

On any given day, Pat Merkley helps clients with everything from registering for Social Security and accessing housing to providing marriage counseling to women trying to bring harmony to their polygamous family's home.

Wednesday, July 8th 2009: A book documenting one man's experiences in the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints community has been published, just two years after religious leader and polygamist Warren Jeffs' imprisonment for being an accomplice to rape.

A British Columbia man living in a polygamist sect has 25 wives and 101 children with brides as young as 15, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allege.

Robert Matas Vancouver - Last updated on Friday, Jul. 03, 2009 10:08PM EDT R eligious leader Jim Oler offered a pleasant smile but refused to comment on Friday after spending the week in a Vancouver courtroom, listening to legal arguments on whether he and Winston Blackmore were improperly charged with the crime of polygamy.

When Randy Weaver pressed his lawsuit against the United States government for the wrongful death of Weaver's wife and son, the attorney representing Weaver pretty much despised everything that Randy Weaver stood for.

Four of the 25 wives of fundamentalist Mormon leader Winston Blackmore of Bountiful, B.C., were just 15 when they were bound to him in spiritual marriages, says an affidavit filed Tuesday in his polygamy case.

The heifers are gone -- and that has put a snag in a key element of a proposal aimed at settling disputes involving a property trust once controlled by a polygamous sect.

It's called "bleeding the beast" -- a term used by avowed polygamists to describe taking money from government.

Christopher Smart's "Blanding residents outraged" illustrated the extent of anti-federal government sentiment in southern Utah.

The Utah attorney general s office has proposed a settlement to end a four-year dispute over US$100 million in land in Utah, Arizona and Canada once held by a polygamous sect and its leader, Warren Jeffs.

Sexual abuse, coercion and pain. That's how a former member of the FLDS Polygamist group describes her life there before she fled her family and her faith.

A former member of the F.L.D.S. cult polygamist group shares her story at a Tyler book signing.

The key witness in the 2007 criminal trial of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs is offering to settle the multimillion dollar lawsuit she filed against a communal church trust.

Books YAHOO! Books Former FLDS member to describe polygamy, abuse By Brian Bethel Monday, June 8, 2009 Book signing "Church of Lies" by Paul T. Brown and Flora Jessop Date: Wednesday Where: Hastings Books, Music & Video, 4709 S. 14th St.

These are tough times for fundamentalist Mormon polygamists. The criminal charges -- one count each of practising polygamy -- against Bountiful's two leaders, James Oler, 44, and Winston Blackmore, 52, are expected to end up in the Supreme Court of Canada because their defence is that the Constitution guarantees their right to freedom of religion ...

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Talk radio's Glenn Beck. Mormons know Glenn Beck; Many think of him as their favorite convert.

Not everyone who lives in Colorado City and Hildale - " the twin towns straddling the Utah-Arizona border - " are loyal to the now jailed polygamous prophet, Warren Jeffs.