Apostolic United Brethren

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The Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) is a Mormon fundamentalist group that practices polygamy. The AUB has older roots, but became a distinct organization in the 1950s. The group has had a temple in Mexico since the 1990s, an endowment house in Utah since the early 1980s, and several other locations of worship to accommodate their members in the US states of Wyoming, Arizona, and Montana. The title "Apostolic United Brethren" is not generally used by members, who prefer to call it "The Work", "The Priesthood", or "The Group". Those outside the faith sometimes refer to it as the "Allred Group" because two of its presidents shared that surname. Most members of the AUB do not refer to their organization as a "church" and, unlike nearly all other Mormon fundamentalist groups who reject the mainline the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) entirely, the AUB regards the mainline church as a legitimate divine institution, though wayward and diminished. Religious scholar J...

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