Although, officially, the mainline Mormon church condemns the modern practice of polygamy and has, moreorless excommunicated polygamists, Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, who largely live along the Utah/Arizona border (as well as the YFZ Ranch in Texas), insist that they're the true Mormons, and I would say that the FLDS and other polygamous Mormon groups have become the proverbial thorn in the flesh for the LDS leadership in Salt Lake City. This documentary, about 80 minutes long, traces the Mormon practice of polygamy, established by Joseph Smith in 1843 to modern day polygamous practices in the FLDS.
*Note: although Gordon B. Hinckley is identified as the "current" president of the Mormon Church, Hinckley (b. 1910) died in 2008, aged 97 & as of Sept. 2nd 2010, Thomas Manton is the current president.
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