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 Mormon fundamentalists hold that a commandment given in Doctrine and Covenants 132 cannot be withdrawn for legal convenience.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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