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Warren Jeffs, prophet since 2002.
He succeeded his father Rulon, expelled hundreds of men and reassigned their families, and was convicted in Texas in 2011 of sexually assaulting two children. He still holds the office from prison.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
The 1890 Manifesto was a surrender, not a revelation.
The LDS Church renounced plural marriage under federal pressure. Mormon fundamentalists hold that a commandment given in Doctrine and Covenants 132 cannot be withdrawn for legal convenience.
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One man holds the keys.
The prophet holds the priesthood alone and delegates nothing that matters — marriages, property, membership. It is the doctrine that made Warren Jeffs' hold on the church survive his imprisonment.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
A covenant world with a living prophet, and priesthood held by one man at a time
After death
Degrees of glory; the celestial kingdom entered through the new and everlasting covenant of marriage