1953, Ogden married Mona “Louise” McBride (1933-2003) in the LDS Mesa Arizona Temple. They held a wedding reception in her hometown of Pima, Graham County, AZ on the following day. They eventually had 5 children. Fundamentalist activities Ogden developed a testimony of polygamy after studying LDS doctrine and church history. Kraut was set apart as a fundamentalist Seventy by Joseph White Musser (1872-1954; fundamentalist leader in Short Creek) but continued to serve as an LDS Elder. Ogden waited until 1969 to marry a second wife, Anne B. Wilde. He also married Mildred Lorraine Stahl Nielsen (1935-2015). He had a total of around five wives, although the exact number was never made public. Kraut wrote books, some self-published, on fundamentalist topics. His 95 Theses, named after the famous document by Martin Luther, includes specific charges against doctrinal changes in the LDS Church. His first breakthrough publication was the book Jesus Was Married in 1969, and he would go on to publish 65 books with his second wife Anne Wilde. He also published books for other people. Kraut was known to be keeping a distance from the emerging fundamentalist groups. He believed they had no authority to build their own churches and defended his independent lifestyle: In 1972, Kraut was excommunicated from the LDS Church by Grantsville Stake President Kenneth Clark Johnson Sr (1917-2009) for "apostasy," which included his belief in polygamy. The FBI investigated claims that the church had conducted a wiretapping operation against Kraut. In 1977, Alex Joseph founded the polygamist group Confederate Nations of Israel, consisting of some 400 members spread throughout the United States, of which only a fourth were living in polygamous families. However, this was not an LDS fundamentalist sect, but rather a confederation of independent "patriarchs" which included Catholics, Protestants, Eastern religionists, atheists, and sexually-active homosexuals in addition to Mormon fundamentalists, the latter forming only a minority. Kraut was initially one of these patriarchs, although he later withdrew. When the Singer-Swapp Standoff occurred on January 16-28, 1988 in Marion, Summit County, Utah, Ogden (who was acquainted with the family) was permitted to bring them food and supplies on January 25. He carried letters between Utah Governor Norman Howard Bangerter (1933-2015) and the polygamists. Authorities wished to counter public perceptions that they were employing "psychological warfare" and "siege tactics". In vain, they hoped that Kraut or the governor's letter would influence the outlaws to negotiate or