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|L1=Response to claim: 325 - The author points out that after Joseph's death, Rhoda Richards was sealed to "her cousin Brigham Young"
|L2=Response to claim: 333 - Parley P. Pratt's is claimed to have been seald to his "last wife, Eleanor McComb McLean...without divorcing her legal husband"
|L3=Response to claim: 345 - Edwin Wooley married Louisa Chapin Rising as a polygamous wife even though she was not divorced from her legal husband
|L4=Response to claim: 351 - Ezra Taft Benson was "a correspondent of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover"
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==Response to claim: 325 - The author points out that after Joseph's death, Rhoda Richards was sealed to "her cousin Brigham Young"==
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|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author points out that after Joseph's death, Rhoda Richards was sealed to "her cousin Brigham Young."
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{{propaganda|Here the author again relies on presentism to provide a hostile interpretive lens. It was not unusual for first cousins to marry.  Nineteen of the present-day states permit unrestricted marriage between first cousins, and most countries have no restrictions at all on marriage between cousins.  In its exploitation of the presentist fallacy, the author’s remark is utterly irrelevant in its historical context.
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*{{GDS-See also|3|205}}
*[[../../Presentism]]

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|claim={{AuthorQuote|"Orson Hyde reported seeing a 'wonderful lustful spirit' on his visit to the polygamous Cochranite community….In 1834 he acquired his own lustful spirit in Marinda Johnson…."}}
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*[[../../Use_of_sources#.22wonderful_lustful_spirit.22|Use of sources: "wonderful lustful spirit"]]
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==Response to claim: 333 - Parley P. Pratt's is claimed to have been seald to his "last wife, Eleanor McComb McLean...without divorcing her legal husband"==
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|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=Parley P. Pratt's is claimed to have been seald to his "last wife, Eleanor McComb McLean...without divorcing her legal husband, who fatally shot Parley near Van Buren, Arkansas…."
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{{misinformation|The author relies on [[../../Presentism|presentism]]. Practices regarding marriage and divorce differed substantially from the 20th or 21st century. The author also tells us nothing about McComb's tyrannical and abusive husband, making him appear the wronged party.
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* [[Polygamy/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder]]
*[[Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

<!-- ==Response to claim: 333 - The murder of Parley P. Pratt is claimed to be "the proximate cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre"==
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|claim=The murder of Parley P. Pratt is claimed to be "the proximate cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre."
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# Scott F. and Maurine J. Proctor, ''Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt'' (1874; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 586-99.
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*[[../../Use_of_sources#PP_Pratt.27s_murder_.22the_proximate_cause_of_MMM.22|Use of sources: Pratt murder proximate cause of MMM?]]
* [[Polygamy/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder]] -->

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|claim=Did Parley P. Pratt engage in "theological philanderings?"
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*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
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==Response to claim: 345 - Edwin Wooley married Louisa Chapin Rising as a polygamous wife even though she was not divorced from her legal husband==
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|claim=Edwin Wooley married Louisa Chapin Rising as a polygamous wife even though she was not divorced from her legal husband.
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*[[Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce]]
*[[../../Presentism]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
*{{GDS-See also|Preface|flyleaf}}

==Response to claim: 351 - Ezra Taft Benson was "a correspondent of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover"==
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Ezra Taft Benson was "a correspondent of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover…."
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{{propaganda|It is not clear what relevance this has to Benson, plural marriage, or anything else, save perhaps that it associates the church president with a figure now regarded as repressive, megalomaniacal, and something of a sexual deviant.
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*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]] 
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

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