Original sentence: Groups describing themselves as Mormon fundamentalists, while numerically much smaller than the LDS church, continue to use the term "Mormon" when dealing with the media as part of their claim to represent "true Mormonism
Edited sentence: Groups describing themselves as Mormon fundamentalists, while numerically much smaller than the LDS church and without lineal apostolic leadership, continue to use the term "Mormon" when dealing with the media as part of their claim to represent "true Mormonism