The Centennial Park group is a fundamentalist Mormon group,[1] with approximately 1,500 members that is headquartered in Centennial Park, Arizona. The Centennial Park group broke with Leroy S. Johnson, leader and senior member of the Priesthood Council of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), in the early 1980s. There is no formal relationship between the FLDS Church and the Centennial Park community.[2][3] The group is also known as the "Second Ward", "The Work of Jesus Christ" and "The Work".
The Centennial Park group was profiled on the ABC television program Primetime in a story entitled "The Outsiders", and also on The Oprah Winfrey Network's Our America with Lisa Ling. It was also featured in Dawn Porter's television documentary, Dawn Porter: Extreme Wife and on the National Geographic Channel series Polygamy, USA.[4]
- ^ "Modern Polygamy: Arizona Mormon Fundamentalists Seek to Shed Stereotypes". United States: ABC News.
- ^ Utah Attorney General’s Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. The Primer, Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Updated June 2006. Page 14.
- ^ Centennial Park Action Committee, Centennial Park committee website
- ^ "Polygamy USA | National Geographic Channel". Channel.nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
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