Cult Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text===Polygamist cults=== {{further information|Polygamy}} {{see also|Mormonism and polygamy|Mormon fundamentalism|Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement}} Cults that teach and practice [[polygamy]], marriage between more than two people, most often [[polygyny]], one man having multiple wives, have long been noted, although they are a minority. It has been estimated that there are around 50,000 members of polygamist cults in North America.<ref>Bridgstock, Robert. 2014. ''The Youngest Bishop in England: Beneath the Surface of Mormonism''. [[See Sharp Press]]. p. 102.</ref> Often, polygamist cults are viewed negatively by both legal authorities and mainstream society, and this view sometimes includes negative perceptions of related mainstream denominations, because of their perceived links to possible [[domestic violence]] and [[child abuse]].<ref>Cusack, C. 2015. ''Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy: Issues in Criminal Justice''. [[Springer books|Springer]].</ref> From the 1830s to 1904, members of [[Mormonism]]'s largest denomination, [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), performed polygamous marriages. These were called [[Mormonism and polygamy|plural marriages]] by the church. In 1890, the [[president of the Church (LDS Church)|president]] of the LDS Church, [[Wilford Woodruff]], issued [[1890 Manifesto|a public manifesto]] announcing the cessation of new plural marriages. [[Anti-Mormonism|Anti-Mormon sentiment]] waned, as did opposition to statehood for Utah. The [[Smoot Hearings]] in 1904, which documented that members of the LDS Church were still performing new polygamous marriages, spurred the church to issue a [[Second Manifesto]], again claiming that it had ceased the practice. By 1910, the LDS Church [[excommunicate]]d those who entered into or performed new polygamous marriages.<ref name="UHE-Polygamy">Embry, Jessie L. 1994. "Polygamy." In ''Utah History Encyclopedia'', edited by A. K. Powell. Salt Lake City: [[University of Utah Press]]. {{ISBN|0874804256}}. {{OCLC|30473917}}.</ref> Enforcement of the 1890 Manifesto caused various [[Schism (religion)|splinter groups]] to leave the LDS Church in order to continue the practice of religious polygamy.<ref>[http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf "The Primer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050111224555/http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf |date=11 January 2005}} – Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities. A joint report from the offices of the Attorneys General of Arizona and Utah. (2006)</ref> Such groups are known as [[Mormon fundamentalism|Mormon fundamentalists]]. For example, the [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]] is often described as a polygamist cult.<ref>Alex Hannaford, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/13/woman-escaped-cult-hq-flds-refuge "The woman who escaped a polygamous cult – and turned its HQ into a refuge"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 13 October 2018.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page