Jeffs Move May Be Ploy to Retain Leadership

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Observers knowledgeable about Mormon fundamentalist splinter groups are wondering whether Warren Jeffs' formal resignation as president of an FLDS corporation on Wednesday is simply a legal ploy that severs his financial ties to the church but allows him to remain its covert spiritual leader.

John Hamer, author of a new book, "Scattering of the Saints: Schism Within Mormonism," said news of Jeffs' resignation could mean different things to his followers than it does to outside observers who assume he has simply disassociated himself from any oversight of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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Jeffs Move May Be Ploy to Retain Leadership

He said language saying Jeffs had resigned as "president of the priesthood council" does not appear in the statement released by Jeffs' attorneys on Wednesday. That designation is tantamount to being the ...

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