After the formal abandonment of plural marriage by the LDS Church, many members around Short Creek and elsewhere continued, and even solemnized, plural marriages. They see the 1886 Revelation as precluding validity of the 1890 Manifesto against new plural marriages by church members, issued by Wilford Woodruff, whom the LDS Church recognizes as Taylor's successor. Woolley, of a purported 1886 divine revelation to then- LDS Church President John Taylor. The FLDS traces its claim to spiritual authority to accounts, starting with a statement published in 1912 by Lorin C. This land will produce in abundance sufficient wheat to feed the people." The twin cities were once known as Short Creek, officially founded in 1913 as a ranching community. This will be the granaries of the Saints.
It is taught in the community that Brigham Young, then president of the LDS Church, once visited the area and said "this will someday be the head and not the tail of the church. The residents in the area of Hildale and Colorado City have a long history of practicing polygamy, dating to the mid-19th century. Members of the FLDS Church have owned machine shops that have sold airplane components to the United States Air Force and the Defense Logistics Agency from 1998 to 2007 the receipts from these components totaled more than US$1.7 million. There are also developing communities near Benjamín Hill, Sonora (south of Nogales in the state of Sonora) : 219 Ensenada, Baja California (south of Tijuana) and Boise City, Oklahoma. However, in recent years, membership has suffered due to purges by Warren Jeffs, and members leaving.
It was estimated to have 6,000 to 10,000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona Eldorado, Texas Westcliffe, Colorado Mancos, Colorado Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia and Pringle, South Dakota. The exact number of members of the FLDS Church is not known, due to the relatively closed cultish nature of the organization. Other newer church settlements are 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Pringle, South Dakota, and Mancos, Colorado, with a presence in Minot, North Dakota, and Grand Marais, Minnesota. Since the purchase of land located 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Eldorado, then called the Yearning for Zion Ranch, there appeared to be a shift in the headquarters of the church, along with a large exodus of the "most faithful" church members. In 2004, news reports suggested a possible shift of the church's headquarters to Eldorado, Texas, where a temple had been built by FLDS Church members. The historic location of the church was in Hildale and Colorado City, but the church also has a long-standing colony in Bountiful, British Columbia. The settlement eventually expanded into Utah and became incorporated as the twin municipalities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. The FLDS Church headquarters were originally located in what was then known as Short Creek in Arizona, on the southern border of Utah. 4.1 Plural marriage and placement marriage.3.4 Legal trouble and leadership struggles.The group is considered a polygamous cult. The FLDS Church has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center: citing leader Warren Jeffs' opinions on " Blacks, women, gays, violence and the end of the world" and called them "a white supremacist, homophobic, antigovernment, totalitarian cult". The FLDS Church as a distinct group traces its origins to the 1950s in the Short Creek community (now the twin cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona), where the group is still based. The fundamentalist Mormon movement emerged in the early 20th century, when its founding members were excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), largely because of their refusal to abandon the practice of plural marriage after it was renounced in the " Second Manifesto" (1904). The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( FLDS Church) is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations whose members practice polygamy.
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