Are the 10,000 Mormons practicing polygamy along the Utah-Arizona border disowned by LDS regulars?
Having read all the Mormon answers carefully, I think you have been given a clear ‘Yes’ to your main question. FLDS and others like them are not considered to be true LDS followers. But your questions on the doctrinal anomaly regarding polygamy have really been evaded. Hindsight has been used to come up with the idea of a ‘temporary’ doctrine of polygamy as God’s way of dealing with lack of husbands due to the Civil War. Nice try. But Cookie then used the phrase ‘the blessing of being married to their ETERNAL companion’ which means she believes that the Mormon doctrine of eternal sealing (in marriage) is true. Therefore, I wonder how she could have said that founder leader Brigham Young stuck to polygamy as ‘a true doctrine’ yet she believes the FLDS ‘are actually in clear defiance of true Mormon doctrine’. Are not the FLDS being loyal to Brigham Young’s conviction that polygamy [‘plural marriage’ in Mormon-speak] is a God-ordained principle that will last into eternity? Does this mean
