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Former polygamous sect members walk through old meetinghouse on Utah-Arizona line and remember the good and bad times

Colorado City, Ariz. • They walked through the same double doors they used to, past the foyer and into the meeting hall — a 10,000 square foot room with a stage on one end and a pulpit and stadium seating on the other.

The polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints used to hold their services here, in the Leroy S. Johnson Meetinghouse. One by one, people have left that church, or were kicked out. Once they were gone, they weren’t allowed back inside this building.

That changed for the first time — and in a way, the only time — Saturday.