Polygamy has been a basic part of the Mormon church

Dear Editor,

The coming to light of a polygamous paedophiliac cult in Texas has thrown the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints in another one of its multitude of historical controversies. It is therefore good for our intelligent Guyanese public who thirst for truth and knowledge, that the President of the George-town Guyana District, Mr. Wayne W Barrow, representing the public affairs office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has come out with a public explanation in seeking to distance (his version of) the LDS Church from that Texas version called the Fundamental Latter Day Saints (FLDS) Church, which Barrow and (current) LDS doctrines claim to be a “small polygamous sect”, one of many “splinter groups that broke away from the mainstream church.”