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|L1=Response to claim: 205 (HB,PB) - "Unrepentant abandonment to the 'lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life' (1 John 2:16) had caused Joseph's ruin; nothing more, nothing less"
|L2=Response to claim: 207, 548n12 (PB) - Did Willard Richards have Samuel Smith murdered?
|L3=Response to claim: 207, 548n13 (PB) - Polygamy was "being enjoyed" by certain members of the Twelve Apostles at the time of Joseph's death
|L4=Response to claim: 211, 549n28 (PB) - Did Joseph Smith tell Porter Rockwell that "it was right to steal"?
|L5=Response to claim: 211, 549n29 (PB) - Did Orson Hyde say that it was OK to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons?
|L6=Response to claim: 211, 549n31-34 (PB) - The author claims that the Nauvoo police committed "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church
|L7=Response to claim: 212, 549n35-37 (PB) - "Although the exact number of murders committed by Mormons between 1844 and 1846 remains unknown, it is certain that a majority of them were handled by Danites"
|L8=Response to claim: 213, 549n38 (PB) - The author claims that Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde ordered Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes, who "subsequently disappeared without a trace"
|L9=Response to claim: 213, 550n41-43 - "Mormon dissenter" Irvine Hodge was "presumably" murdered by Nauvoo policemen
|L10=Response to claim: 213, 550n44-45 (PB) - The author asserts that members of the Council of Fifty responsible for committing murders
|L11=Response to claim: 213, 550n44 (PB) - Was Jonathan Dunham killed because he had "ignored the prophet's direct order to lead the Nauvoo Legion in a rescue at Carthage Jail"?
|L12=Response to claim: 214, 550n46 - The author asserts that Nauvoo Police Chief Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"
|L13=Response to claim: 214, 550n49-51 - The author states that outsiders who were not "murdered or severely beaten" instead "whittled" out of town by Brigham's 'Whistling and Whittling Brigade'"
|L14=Response to claim: 216-217, 552n62-65 (HB) 550n62-65 (PB) - The author claims that government records indicate that some apostles were involved in counterfeiting
|L15=Response to claim: 217 - The author claims that Brigham chose to start the exodus westward early because he was faced with the possibility of counterfeiting charges
|L16=Response to claim: 220, 553n77 (HB) - Brigham "proudly admitted" "'I have been your dictator for twenty-seven years--over a quarter of a century I have dictated this people'"
|L17=Response to claim: 221-222, 551n84-87 - The author claims that Latter-day Saints believe that "they were the only ones with a legitimate right to be stewards of the Lord's property"
|L18=Response to claim: 222, 554n88 (HB) - Did Brigham claim that God's kingdom had already come when he said: "that Kingdom is actually organized, and the inhabitants of earth do not know it"?
|L19=Response to claim: 222, 554n89 (HB) - Brigham said: "We will roll on the Kingdom of our God...and establish the Kingdom of God to bear rule over all the earth"
|L20=Response to claim: 223, 552n94 - Salvation depends upon obedience to Brigham Young
|L21=Response to claim: 223, 552n95 - Did Brigham Young believe that one day he "would himself become president of the United States, or dictate who should be president"?
|L22=Response to claim: 223, 552n96 (PB) - John Taylor said "We used to have a difference between Church and State, but it is all one now..."
|L23=Response to claim: 223, 552n97 (PB) - "Mormon leaders ruled via a ruthlessly oppressive theocracy wherein they kept followers in line through violence and intimidation"
|L24=Response to claim: 224, 552n98 (PB) - Were there "numerous murders" committed at the request of Brigham Young and other Church leaders?
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==Response to claim: 205 (HB,PB) - "Unrepentant abandonment to the 'lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life' (1 John 2:16) had caused Joseph's ruin; nothing more, nothing less"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
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{{AuthorQuote|"Unrepentant abandonment to the 'lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life' (1 John 2:16) had caused Joseph's ruin; nothing more, nothing less."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided other than {{b|1|Jn|2|16}}.
}}
*[[../Loaded and prejudicial language|Loaded and prejudicial language]]
{{propaganda|This appears to be the author's fantasy.
}}

==Response to claim: 207, 548n12 (PB) - Did Willard Richards have Samuel Smith murdered?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
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*Did Willard Richards have Samuel Smith murdered to prevent any succession issues?
*Samuel's wife accused the Nauvoo Chief of Police: Hosea Stout.
|authorsources=<br>
#{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=153}}
}}
{{disinformation|The following is on page 548 in the endnote: "Although Quinn explains in great depth the various reasons why it is probable that Stout killed Samuel, he adds a word of caution: 'This troubling allegation should not be ignored but cannot be verified.'" The book does not make clear how Samuel's wife's suspicion that Hosea Stout killed her husband relates to Willard Richards possibly having "gone so far as to have Samuel murdered."
}}

==Response to claim: 207, 548n13 (PB) - Polygamy was "being enjoyed" by certain members of the Twelve Apostles at the time of Joseph's death==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Polygamy was "being enjoyed" by certain members of the Twelve Apostles at the time of Joseph's death.
|authorsources=<br>
#{{CriticalWork:Van Wagoner:Mormon Polygamy|pages=78}}
}}
{{misinformation|Many more than the Twelve had taken plural wives.  Thirty-three men had taken plural wives by the martyrdom.<ref>{{CriticalWork:Smith:Nauvoo Polygamy|pages=310}}</ref>
}}

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*{{AuthorQuote|"Mormon thieves, who regularly stole from non-Mormons..."}}
*The book claims that this had been a long-standing complaint about Saints in the area since eight issues of the ''Warsaw Signal'' published in late 1844 and early 1845 included articles related to "Mormon Thieves."
|authorsources=<br>
#
}}
*[[../../Notable omissions#211|Notable omissions: Warsaw Signal and Mormon thieves]]
* {{Abanes:One Nation:Crime in Nauvoo}}
|authorsources=<br>
#Marshall Hamilton, "From Assassination to Expulsion: Two Years of Distrust, Hostility, and Violence," in Launius and Hallwas, 216.
}} -->

==Response to claim: 211, 549n28 (PB) - Did Joseph Smith tell Porter Rockwell that "it was right to steal"?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Did Joseph Smith tell Porter Rockwell that "it was right to steal"?
|authorsources=<br>
#{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=637}}
}}
{{propaganda|The only evidence for this statement is a fourth-hand claim made by a convicted fifteen-year-old thief attempting to justify himself. Joseph's diary recorded the comment, suggesting it cannot have threatened or worried him.
}}
{{:Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'?}}

==Response to claim: 211, 549n29 (PB) - Did Orson Hyde say that it was OK to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Did Orson Hyde say that it was OK to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons?
|authorsources=<br>
#Orson Hyde. Quoted in John Bennion, "John Bennion Journal," under October 13, 1860; cf. Brigham Young Office Journal, April 3, 1860.
}}
{{misinformation|Hyde didn't say that the Spirit of the Lord inspired Hickman to steal, but that it was a sin from which he should refrain.
}}
{{:Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons?}}

==Response to claim: 211, 549n31-34 (PB) - The author claims that the Nauvoo police committed "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
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The author claims that the Nauvoo police committed "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church.
|authorsources=<br>
#Allen J. Stout, "Allen J. Stout Journal," under June 28, 1844, Utah State Historical Society, 14, online at <nowiki>http://www.math.byu.edu/~smithw/Lds/LDS/Early-Saints/AStout.html</nowiki>
*Hosea Stout, under February 22, 1845 and March 13, 1847, in Juanita Brooks, ed., ''On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout'', vol. 1, 22; 241.
*{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=151, 643}}
}}
{{misinformation|The sources cited by the author do not support this claim.
}}
*[[../Use of sources/Nauvoo police violence|Use of sources:Nauvoo police violence]]
{{:Question: Did the Nauvoo police commit "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church?}}

==Response to claim: 212, 549n35-37 (PB) - "Although the exact number of murders committed by Mormons between 1844 and 1846 remains unknown, it is certain that a majority of them were handled by Danites"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
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{{AuthorQuote|"Although the exact number of murders committed by Mormons between 1844 and 1846 remains unknown, it is certain that a majority of them were handled by Danites Porter Rockwell, Hosea Stout, and Allen Stout."}}
|authorsources=<br>
*''History of the Church'', vol. 7, 446-447.
*{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=653}}
*George Rockwell, letter to Thomas Rockwell, September 23, 1845. Quoted in {{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=181}}.
}}
{{propaganda|If the number of murders is unknown, how can we be 'certain' that these three men committed most of them? If three men are responsible for most of the (alleged) murders, then that is evidence for their perfidy, and not evidence of a general church policy of violence and murder. The author has demolished his own argument.
}}
*[[../Loaded and prejudicial language|Loaded and prejudicial language]]

==Response to claim: 213, 549n38 (PB) - The author claims that Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde ordered Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes, who "subsequently disappeared without a trace"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
The author claims that Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde ordered Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes, who "subsequently disappeared without a trace"
|authorsources=<br>
#{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=181}}
}}
{{propaganda|Lambert Symes is not recorded as ever having been in Nauvoo. Indeed, Symes 'disappeared' so completely than there is no record of him ever existing!
}}
{{:Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes?}}

==Response to claim: 213, 550n41-43 - "Mormon dissenter" Irvine Hodge was "presumably" murdered by Nauvoo policemen==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
*Was "Mormon dissenter" Irvine Hodge "presumably" murdered by Nauvoo policemen because he threatened to "expose every Mormon who had been involved in stealing from non-Mormons" and threatened to harm Brigham Young and a Nauvoo policeman?
|authorsources=<br>
#William Hall, ''The Abominations of Mormonism Exposed'', 31-34.
*{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=217, 651}}
*Brigham Young. Quoted on an undated page of statements by Jehiel Savage, Charles B. Thompson, George J. Adams, and Joseph Younger.
}}
{{misinformation|The author misrepresents the sources used.
}}
{{:Question: Was Irvine Hodge murdered by Nauvoo policemen?}}

==Response to claim: 213, 550n44-45 (PB) - The author asserts that members of the Council of Fifty responsible for committing murders==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
The author asserts that members of the Council of Fifty responsible for committing murders.
|authorsources=<br>
#Oliver B. Huntington, statement in "Seymour B. Young Diary," under May 23, 1903.
*Clayton, under July 5, 1845.
*{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=179}}
}}
{{misinformation|The author misrepresents his sources.
}}
{{:Question: Did the Council of Fifty order homicides to be committed?}}

==Response to claim: 213, 550n44 (PB) - Was Jonathan Dunham killed because he had "ignored the prophet's direct order to lead the Nauvoo Legion in a rescue at Carthage Jail"?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Was Jonathan Dunham killed because he had "ignored the prophet's direct order to lead the Nauvoo Legion in a rescue at Carthage Jail"?
|authorsources=<br>
#Oliver B. Huntington, statement in "Seymour B. Young Diary," under May 23, 1903; see {{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=179}}
}}
{{propaganda|The author relies upon a known forgery to draw his conclusion. There is little good evidence from the extant documents that Joseph attempted to have the Nauvoo Legion rescue him. By contrast, he repeatedly ordered the militia to stay home and his followers to avoid assembling. 
}}
{{:Question: Did Joseph order Jonathan Dunham, head of the Nauvoo legion, to rescue him?}}

==Response to claim: 214, 550n46 - The author asserts that Nauvoo Police Chief Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
The author asserts that Nauvoo Police Chief Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship."
|authorsources=<br>
#Hosea Stout, under September 14, 1845, in Brooks, vol. 1, 63.
}}
{{misinformation|The author misrepresents the sources that he cites.
}}
{{:Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"?}}

==Response to claim: 214, 550n49-51 - The author states that outsiders who were not "murdered or severely beaten" instead "whittled" out of town by Brigham's 'Whistling and Whittling Brigade'"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
The author states that outsiders who were not "murdered or severely beaten" instead "whittled" out of town by Brigham's 'Whistling and Whittling Brigade.'" Was the "Whistling and Whittling Brigade" a "violent gang of Mormons" that were "in good standing with the church?"
|authorsources=<br>
*William B. Pace, ''William B. Pace Autobiography''. Quoted in Dean Moody, "Nauvoo's Whistling and Whittling Brigade," ''BYU Studies'' (Summer 1975), vol. 15, 487.  [http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=1305 ''BYU Studies'' article PDF]
*{{CitationError}}: should be "Thurmon Dean Moody."
*Jehiel Savage statement in minutes of the high council of James Strang's followers at Voree, Wisconsin, April 6, 1846.
*Hosea Stout, under April 27, 1845, in Brooks, vol. 1, 36.
}}
{{propaganda|The "Whistling and Whittling Brigade" did exist, but the author's assertion that others were "murdered or severely beaten" is nonsense.
}}
* [[../Use of sources/Whistling and Whittling Brigades|Whistling and Whittling Brigades]]

==Response to claim: 216-217, 552n62-65 (HB) 550n62-65 (PB) - The author claims that government records indicate that some apostles were involved in counterfeiting==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
The author claims that government records indicate that Brigham Young, Willard Richards, Parley Pratt, and Orson Hyde were involved in making counterfeit coins "under Joseph's leadership"? 
|authorsources=<br>
*Jerald and Sandra Tanner, ''The Mormon Kingdom'', vol. 2, 51-64.
*{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=127, 650-651}}
*''Warsaw Signal'', June 5, 1844.
*''St Louis American'', December 2, 1845.
}}
{{misinformation|There are no government records indicating that Brigham Young or any apostles were involved in counterfeiting.
}}
{{:Question: Are there government records that prove that the apostles were involved in counterfeiting in Nauvoo?}}

==Response to claim: 217 - The author claims that Brigham chose to start the exodus westward early because he was faced with the possibility of counterfeiting charges==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
The author claims that Brigham chose to start the exodus westward early because he was faced with the possibility of counterfeiting charges.
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda|The counterfeiting charges were likely [[../../Use of sources/Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph|a ploy]] to ensure that the Mormons left Nauvoo in 1846 as promised.  Young's announcement that he would head west sent the message that they would not linger, which is what the local anti-Mormons wanted.
}}
*[[../Loaded and prejudicial language|Loaded and prejudicial language]]

==Response to claim: 220, 553n77 (HB) - Brigham "proudly admitted" "'I have been your dictator for twenty-seven years--over a quarter of a century I have dictated this people'"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Brigham "proudly admitted" "'I have been your dictator for twenty-seven years--over a quarter of a century I have dictated this people.'"
|authorsources=<br>
#Brigham Young, August 13, 1871, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_14/The_Gospel,_etc. ''Journal of Discourses'', vol. 14, 205].
}}
{{misinformation|Brigham was talking of spiritual matters, not governmental matters.
}}
{{:Question: Did Brigham Young "proudly admit" to being a dictator?}}

==Response to claim: 221-222, 551n84-87 - The author claims that Latter-day Saints believe that "they were the only ones with a legitimate right to be stewards of the Lord's property"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
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The author claims that Latter-day Saints believe that "they were the only ones with a legitimate right to be stewards of the Lord's property&mdash;i.e., all creation. Gentiles, on the other hand, because they had no claim to the earth, would have to give up to the Saints what they mistakenly viewed as their property."
|authorsources=<br>
*{{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|disc=46|vol=2|start=298|end=308}}
*S[olomon] N. Carvalho, ''Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition'' 142-143.
*{{HC1|vol=1|start=150}}; cf. {{s||D&C|42|37}}.
}}
{{misinformation|The author has misrepresented his sources.
}}
{{:Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth?}}

==Response to claim: 222, 554n88 (HB) - Did Brigham claim that God's kingdom had already come when he said: "that Kingdom is actually organized, and the inhabitants of earth do not know it"?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Did Brigham claim that God's kingdom had already come when he said: "[T]hat Kingdom is actually organized, and the inhabitants of earth do not [even] know it"?
|authorsources=<br>
#Young, July 8, 1855, in [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_2/The_Kingdom_of_God ''Journal of Discourses'', vol. 2, 310].
}}
{{misinformation|The author misrepresents his sources.
}}
{{:Question: Did Brigham Young claim that the Kingdom of God was already organized on earth, and that the inhabitants of the earth did not know it?}}

==Response to claim: 222, 554n89 (HB) - Brigham said: "We will roll on the Kingdom of our God...and establish the Kingdom of God to bear rule over all the earth"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Brigham said: "We will roll on the Kingdom of our God, gather out the seed of Abraham, build the cities and temples of Zion, and establish the Kingdom of God to bear rule over all the earth."
|authorsources=<br>
#Young, July 8, 1855, in [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_2/The_Kingdom_of_God ''Journal of Discourses'', vol. 2, 317].
}}
{{misinformation|Brigham did not have plans to rule the earth through the establishment of the Kingdom of God.
}}
{{:Question: Did Brigham Young plan to "rule over all the earth"?}}

==Response to claim: 223, 552n94 - Salvation depends upon obedience to Brigham Young==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Salvation depends upon obedience to Brigham Young.
*When Mary Ettie V. Smith recalled asked Brigham, "are you my Saviour?" she claims that Brigham said, "Most assuredly I am....You cannot enter the Celestial kingdom, except by my consent. Do you doubt it?" 
|authorsources=<br>
#Quoted in Nelson Winch Green, ''Mormonism: its rise, progress, and present condition. Embracing the narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith'', 201.
}}
{{propaganda|The source that claims this is notoriously unreliable.
}}
{{:Question: Did Brigham Young tell Ettie V. Smith that he was her savior?}}

==Response to claim: 223, 552n95 - Did Brigham Young believe that one day he "would himself become president of the United States, or dictate who should be president"?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
Did Brigham Young believe that one day he "would himself become president of the United States, or dictate who should be president"?
|authorsources=<br>
#Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Utah, 1540-1886'', 505.
}}
{{information|Hubert Howe Bancroft reports a prophecy made by Brigham Young in 1847, but provides no sources.
}}
{{:Question: Did Brigham Young believe that he would one day become president of the United States?}}

==Response to claim: 223, 552n96 (PB) - John Taylor said "We used to have a difference between Church and State, but it is all one now..."==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
John Taylor said "We used to have a difference between Church and State, but it is all one now..."
|authorsources=<br>
#{{JDfairwiki|author=John Taylor|disc=42|vol=5|start=266}}
}}
{{information|This applied to the Utah Territory. Taylor is pointing out that no one among the Saints has secular solutions to the problems which face them.
}}
{{:Question: Did John Taylor believe that there was no longer a separation between Church and State?}}

==Response to claim: 223, 552n97 (PB) - "Mormon leaders ruled via a ruthlessly oppressive theocracy wherein they kept followers in line through violence and intimidation"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=
{{AuthorQuote|"Mormon leaders ruled via a ruthlessly oppressive theocracy wherein they kept followers in line through violence and intimidation."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#{{JDfairwiki|author=Heber C. Kimball|disc=22|vol=2|start=107}}
}}
{{misinformation|The author misrepresents the cited source. Kimball decries violence, war, and bloodshed, and he promises that apostates and dissenters will "wither," not be destroyed.
}}
{{:Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"?}}

==Response to claim: 224, 552n98 (PB) - Were there "numerous murders" committed at the request of Brigham Young and other Church leaders?==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=One Nation Under Gods
|claim=<br>
*Was the Mormon Reformation was one of the most violent periods in Latter-day Saint history? 
*Were there "numerous murders" committed at the request of Brigham Young and other Church leaders?
|authorsources=<br>
#Ann Eliza Young, ''Wife No. 19, or the Story of A Life In Bondage, Being A Complete Expose of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy'', Chapter 18.
}}
{{propaganda|The author cites only a late, notoriously anti-Mormon nineteenth-century polemic for this claim.
}}

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