Luana, they are Mormons. Not the same group of Mormons as the LDS church, but different followers of the book of Mormon who had a schism with the LDS and formed the FLDS.
Catholics may not like Protestants being called Christians, but they are. Christianity has gazillions of splinter groups… LDS Mormons who added a whole other ream of scriptures to the Christian Bible, who believe faith now demands wearing certain undergarments with Masonic symbols on them, and who once claimed not to be Christians, but instead to be “Saints”, now get upset when people don’t people don’t call them “Christians”.
LDS Mormons have a lot less in common with other Christian faiths than FLDS Mormons do with LDS Mormons.
So the FLDS want to be considered Mormons, and they are. If the LDS don’t want to recognize that, so be, just the same as if Baptists don’t want to recognize LDS members as Christians, which is their right.
And no, I’m not a Huck supporter.
FYI, the term “Mormon fundamentalist” was coined in the 1940s by LDS Church Apostle Mark E. Petersen.
