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|L1=Response to claim: 159 - Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, and Ebenezer Robinson "declined to affirm Smith's good character"
|L2=Response to claim: 160 - Governor Carlin described the Nauvoo statute on writs as an "extraordinary assumption of power….most absurd and ridiculous"
|L3=Response to claim: 161 - The Nauvoo charter is claimed to be "the basis for this presumption of independence from state jurisdiction"
|L4=Response to claim: 162 - ''The Peace Maker'', a non-member's defence of polygamy, "appeared during the hiatus in the erstwhile marriage frenzy of 1842"
|L5=Response to claim: 163 - The book "The Peace Maker" claims that Latter-day Saints were expelled from Illinois "primarily because of the dominant sense they betrayed public trust"
|L6=Response to claim: 185 - Joseph's "summer 1842 call for an intimate visit from Sarah Ann Whitney"
|L7=Response to claim: 190 - The "pretended marriage" of Joseph Kingsbury to the polygamously-married Sarah Ann Whitney is postulated by the author to "have been a precaution against possible pregnancy"
|L8=Response to claim: 193 - Joseph Smith promised Lucy Walker "that if she prayed, she would receive her own personal manifestation from God, which she reported she received"
|L9=Response to claim: 196 -  financial and marital issues, "especially concerning the Lawrence sisters" would eventually "inflame public opinion" and result in Joseph's arrest
|L10=Response to claim: 198 - there existed a "conflict of interests between building a church community" and Joseph's "continuing affection for young women"
|L11=Response to claim: 198 - Joseph was "pursuing" Helen Mar Kimball
|L12=Response to claim: 201 Helen Mar Kimball expected her marriage to Joseph Smith to be a ceremony 'for eternity only,' not an actual marriage involving physical relations
|L13=Response to claim: 201 - Helen Mar Kimball was surprised to discover that marriage included "a physical union"
|L14=Response to claim: 201 - Helen "put her ambivalent feelings into verse in her 'Reminiscences'"
|L15=Response to claim: 205 Brigham Young married his cousin Rhoda Richard
|L16=Response to claim: 214 - "Smith and Clayton spent three hours preparing the eloquent language" of D&C 132
|L17=Response to claim: 225-226 - The author intends Joseph to be seen as arrogant...“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs..."
|L18=Response to claim: 227 - The author claims that there is "no reason to doubt that Smith's marriages involved sexual relations in most instances"
|L19=Response to claim: 228-229 - "Until decisive DNA testing of possible Smith descendants...from plural wives can be accomplished, ascertaining whether Smith fathered children with any of his plural wives remains hypothetical"
|L20=Response to claim: 230 - in 1841 "Sarah Pratt firmly rebuffed Smith and remained monogamously committed to her missionary husband"
|L21=Response to claim: 231 - "Cordelia C. Morley Cox rejected Joseph's "amorous proposal"
|L22=Response to claim: 232 - Eliza Winters “perhaps did not” resist Joseph’s advances “but apparently talked about it all the same"
|L23=Response to claim: 234 - "the posthumous sealing meant that Heber would be Smith's son in the eternities, not the son of his biological father"
|L24=Response to claim: 235 - It is claimed that in 1831 Joseph "directed missionaries to marry native American women"
|L25=Response to claim: 236a - Emma would have to sneak up on Joseph to check up on him
|L26=Response to claim: 236b - LeRoi Snow’s account about Emma and Eliza and the stairs "was accurate"
|L27=Response to claim: 236c - "Just as Joseph sought comfort from Sarah Ann the day Emma departed from his hideout"
|L28=Response to claim: 237 - Joseph's "insatiable addition of one woman after another to an invisible family"
|L29=Response to claim: 237 - Joseph had a "prolonged dalliance with Fanny Alger"
}}
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==Response to claim: 159 - Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, and Ebenezer Robinson "declined to affirm Smith's good character"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim={{AuthorQuote|"several days after Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, and Ebenezer Robinson declined to affirm Smith's good character…."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#''History of the Church'' 5:125, 139.
}}
{{misinformation|The three were Pratt, Rigdon, and '''George W.''' Robinson, not Ebenezer.  (See Manuscript History, 29 August 1842; ''History of the Church'' 5:139; Faulring, ''American Prophet's Record'', 254).
}}

==Response to claim: 160 - Governor Carlin described the Nauvoo statute on writs as an "extraordinary assumption of power….most absurd and ridiculous"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=Governor Carlin described the Nauvoo statute on writs as an "extraordinary assumption of power….most absurd and ridiculous…[a] gross usurpation of power that cannot be tolerated."
}}
{{propaganda|Carlin may not have agreed, but this does not mean that the law was reckless or irresponsible.
}}
*[[City of Nauvoo/City charter]]
*[[City of Nauvoo/City charter/Usurpation of power]]
|authorsources=<br>
#''History of the Church'' 5:153-55.
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Nauvoo city charter}}
}}

==Response to claim: 161 - The Nauvoo charter is claimed to be "the basis for this presumption of independence from state jurisdiction"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The Nauvoo charter is claimed to be "the basis for this presumption of independence from state jurisdiction…."
}}
{{propaganda|The author again gives no hint that the Mormons were being anything but "presumptuous," when in fact the legal arguments of the day were likely in their favor.
|authorsources=<br>
#The author cites chapter 2 of the present work.  However, no argument or justification for this claim is provided in the previous chapter either.
}}
*[[City of Nauvoo/City charter]]
*[[City of Nauvoo/City charter/Usurpation of power]] 
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Nauvoo city charter}}
}}
==Response to claim: 162 - ''The Peace Maker'', a non-member's defence of polygamy, "appeared during the hiatus in the erstwhile marriage frenzy of 1842"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that it is "interesting" that ''The Peace Maker'', a non-member's defence of polygamy, "appeared during the hiatus in the erstwhile marriage frenzy of 1842 and while Smith's apostles were traveling the countryside to counter Bennett's words and deny polygamy."
|authorsources=<br>
#Lawrence Foster, "A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842," ''Dialogue'' 9 (Winter 1974): 21–34.
}}
{{information|The author does not discuss the many differences between The Peace Maker and LDS doctrine. The author and his source also ignore the arguments which had been raised against Joseph's participation or approval. See:
** {{MS|author=Eli B. Kelsey|article=A Base Calumny Refuted|vol=12|num=6|date=15 March 1850|start=92|end=93}}
** Kenneth W. Godfrey, “Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839–1846” (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1967), 96-97.
** {{RSR|start=445|end=446}}
}}

==Response to claim: 163 - The book "The Peace Maker" claims that Latter-day Saints were expelled from Illinois "primarily because of the dominant sense they betrayed public trust"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The book claims that Latter-day Saints were expelled from Illinois "primarily because of the dominant sense they betrayed public trust."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided. He merely asserts and moves on.
}}
{{misinformation|The author here over-simplifies an extremely complex issue, with no references or argument.  See: 
**Kenneth W. Godfrey, "Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846," Ph.D. thesis (1967), Brigham Young University.
}}

==Response to claim: 185 - Joseph's "summer 1842 call for an intimate visit from Sarah Ann Whitney"====
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=
Joseph's "summer 1842 call for an intimate visit from Sarah Ann Whitney…substantiate[s] the intimate relationships he was involved in during those two years."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Love_letters_Whitney}}
{{propaganda|Again, an inaccurate representation of the purpose of the Whitney letter.
}}
*[[../../Use_of_sources#Sarah_Ann_Whitney_and_the_letter_to_the_Whitneys|Use of sources&mdash;Letter to Whitneys]]
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
*[[../../Mind reading]]
*[[../../Romance]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
{{:Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous?}}
{{:Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"?}}
{{:Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney?}}

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{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that the ''History of the Church'' "predictably gives no notice of these weddings."
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*[[Church history/Censorship and revision]]
*[[../../Censorship]]
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# No source provided.
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Censorship}}
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==Response to claim: 190 - The "pretended marriage" of Joseph Kingsbury to the polygamously-married Sarah Ann Whitney is postulated by the author to "have been a precaution against possible pregnancy"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The "pretended marriage" of Joseph Kingsbury to the polygamously-married Sarah Ann Whitney is postulated by the author to "have been a precaution against possible pregnancy."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda|Speculation. Despite the author's wearisome repetition of his "tryst" fable, there is no evidence of a sexual relationship with Sarah Ann.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Whitney letter]]
*[[../../Use_of_sources#Sarah_Ann_Whitney_and_the_letter_to_the_Whitneys|Use of sources&mdash;Letter to Whitneys]]
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
*[[../../Mind reading]]
*[[../../Romance]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Love_letters_Whitney}}

==Response to claim: 193 - Joseph Smith promised Lucy Walker "that if she prayed, she would receive her own personal manifestation from God, which she reported she received"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=Lucy Walker "told Joseph she required a revelation before she would submit [to plural marriage].  He promised that if she prayed, she would receive her own personal manifestation from God, which she reported she received 'near dawn after—a sleepless night"—when a "heavenly influence" and feeling of "supreme happiness…took possession" of her."
|authorsources=<br>
#Littlefield, ''Reminiscences'', 48; Smith, ''Intimate Chronicle'', 100, 557.
}}
{{information|Smith provides the bare minimum of the story; Lucy's account is more impressive and powerful than these few fragments suggest.
}}
*[[Polygamy/Divine manifestations to plural wives and families#Lucy Walker|Plural marriage spiritual manifestations&mdash;Lucy Walker]] 

==Response to claim: 196 -  financial and marital issues, "especially concerning the Lawrence sisters" would eventually "inflame public opinion" and result in Joseph's arrest==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author presumes that financial and marital issues, "especially concerning the Lawrence sisters" would eventually "inflame public opinion" and result in Joseph's arrest.	
|authorsources=<br>
#Gordon Madsen, ‘The Lawrence Estate Revisited: Joseph Smith and Illinois Law regarding Guardianships,’ Nauvoo Symposium, Sept. 21, 1989, Brigham Young University.
}}
{{misinformation|The author does not tell us that Madsen's work (which he cites for his claim) demonstrates that Joseph properly discharged all his financial duties as guardians of the Lawrence estate. The author completely ignores the primary documents on this issue, and relies only on Law's hostile, and demonstrably false, account.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate|Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate?]]
*{{GDS-See also|7|438–439}}
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

==Response to claim: 198 - there existed a "conflict of interests between building a church community" and Joseph's "continuing affection for young women"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author speculates that there existed a "conflict of interests between building a church community and [Joseph's] continuing affection for young women."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda|Smith commonly exploits the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_historical_analysis) presentist fallacy] in the matter of Joseph's wives' ages.
}}
*[[Polygamy book/Age of wives|Age of wives]]
*[[../../Presentism]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Age_wives}}

==Response to claim: 198 - Joseph was "pursuing" Helen Mar Kimball==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that Joseph was "pursuing" Helen Mar Kimball.
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda}}
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Womanizing and romance}}

==Response to claim: 201 Helen Mar Kimball expected her marriage to Joseph Smith to be a ceremony 'for eternity only,' not an actual marriage involving physical relations==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=Helen's biographer concludes that she 'expected her marriage to Joseph Smith' to be a ceremony 'for eternity only,' not an actual marriage involving physical relations.
|authorsources=<br>
#{{CriticalWork:Compton:Sacred Loneliness|pages=500}}
}}
{{misinformation|There is no evidence for physical relations in Helen's marriage to Joseph.  The source cited, Compton, does not agree with the author's reading: “there is absolutely no evidence that there was any sexuality in the marriage, and I suggest that, following later practice in Utah, there may have been no sexuality. All the evidence points to this marriage as a primarily dynastic marriage.” <ref>Todd M. Compton, “Response to Tanners,” post to LDS Bookshelf mailing list (no date), <http://www.lds-mormon.com/compton.shtml> (accessed 2 December 2008). Compare with Smith, ''Nauvoo Polygamy'', 198–202, 302, 362 and Compton, ''In Sacred Loneliness'', 14.</ref>
}}
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
*[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball]]

==Response to claim: 201 - Helen Mar Kimball was surprised to discover that marriage included "a physical union"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that Helen Mar Kimball was surprised to discover "that it included [marriage for] time also: a physical union at age fourteen with a thirty-seven year-old man."
|authorsources=<br>
#{{CriticalWork:Compton:Sacred Loneliness|pages=500}}	
}}
{{misinformation|The author again distorts the source.  The surprise was not in finding that she needed to have "a physical union," but that she was regarded as married, and so could not date others her age while Joseph was alive.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

==Response to claim: 201 - Helen "put her ambivalent feelings into verse in her 'Reminiscences'"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim={{AuthorQuote|"As she put her ambivalent feelings into verse in her "Reminiscences," Helen had "thought through this life my time will be my own," but "the step I am now taking's for eternity alone."  She saw her "youthful friends grow shy and cold" as "poisonous darts from sland'rous tongues were hurled."  She was "bar'd out from social scenes by this destiny," and faced "sad'nd mem'ries of sweet departed joys"}}
|authorsources=<br>
#Stanley B. Kimball, ''Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer'' (Ubana: University of Illinois Press, 1981): 109-110.
}}
{{misinformation|This poem in fact demonstrates the author's misrepresentation of the facts.  Helen's concern was indeed that she was "bar'd out from social scenes"—she could not date while married.  This does not mean, however, that there were sexual relations, and the author's source agrees. In addition to hiding Compton's conclusion, the author does not tell us that his Kimball source likewise concluded that the marriage with Helen was “unconsummated.” 
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball]] 
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

==Response to claim: 205 Brigham Young married his cousin Rhoda Richard==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim={{AuthorQuote|"That [Rhoda Richards] was her husband Brigham's cousin was apparently secondary to the grander scheme of interlocking the hierarchy in marriage."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{misinformation|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.
}}
*{{GDS-See also|5|325}}
*[[../../Presentism]]

==Response to claim: 214 - "Smith and Clayton spent three hours preparing the eloquent language" of D&C 132==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author states that "Smith and Clayton spent three hours preparing the eloquent language" of D&C 132….
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided. 
}}
{{misinformation|Presumes or implies that Joseph Smith and William Clayton were the author(s). Clayton would testify
<blockquote>
"Joseph commenced to dictate the revelation on celestial marriage, and I wrote it, sentence by sentence, as he dictated. After the whole was written, Joseph asked me to read it through, slowly and carefully, which I did, and he pronounced it correct." <ref>See Smith, ''An Intimate Chronicle'', 558; see also ''History of the Church'' 5:xxxii; citing William Clayton, affidavit, 16 February 1874, Salt Lake City, Utah; originally published in Andrew Jenson, "Plural Marriage," ''Historical Record'' 6 (May 1887): 224-226.</ref>
</blockquote>
}}
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]

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{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author speculates that Joseph "found it useful to reference the conditional restriction on marriage found in the Book of Mormon."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
*Implies that Joseph was acting out of pragmatism or opportunity, rather than out of sincere conviction.
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Cynical}} -->

==Response to claim: 225-226 - The author intends Joseph to be seen as arrogant...“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs..."==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|claim=
The author intends Joseph to be seen as arrogant.  He quotes a letter from Joseph to James Arlington Bennet:
<blockquote>
“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth . . . diamond truth; and God is my ‘right hand man.’” 
</blockquote>
The author then editorializes: 
<blockquote>
“With such a self-image, it is not surprising that he also aspired to the highest office in the land: the presidency of the United States.”
</blockquote>
|authorsources=<br>
# No source provided.
}}
{{misinformation|The author fails to tell us that Joseph's remarks are a tongue-in-cheek reply to Bennet's previous letter.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Narcissism]]	

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{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author again quotes Joseph: "‘I am learned, and know more than all the world put together."
}}
*The author does not quote enough of Joseph's remarks to complete his thought.
*The author also avoids quoting the better versions of this talk, from the ''Times and Seasons'', ''BYU Studies'', or even Signature Books.
*[[Joseph Smith/Narcissism]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
|authorsources=<br>
#''History of the Church'' 6:222–223.	 
}} -->

==Response to claim: 227 - The author claims that there is "no reason to doubt that Smith's marriages involved sexual relations in most instances"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that there is "no reason to doubt that Smith's marriages involved sexual relations in most instances."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{misinformation|We have evidence of sexual relations for only nine wives.
}}
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

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{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=Mary Elizabeth Lightner is claimed to have spoken of "'three children' whom she said she 'knew he had.'"
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages]]
|authorsources=<br>
#The Life & Testimony of Mary Lightner (Salt Lake City: Kraut's Pioneer Press, n.d.); "Mary E. Lightner's Testimony, As Delivered at Brigham Young University)," [punctuation ''sic''] Apr. 14, 1905, 41-42, complied by N.B. Lundwall, LDS Archives, at Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
}} -->
==Response to claim: 228-229 - "Until decisive DNA testing of possible Smith descendants...from plural wives can be accomplished, ascertaining whether Smith fathered children with any of his plural wives remains hypothetical"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim={{AuthorQuote|"Until decisive DNA testing of possible Smith descendants—daughters as well as sons—from plural wives can be accomplished, ascertaining whether Smith fathered children with any of his plural wives remains hypothetical."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{misinformation|This is true, but the author fails to tell us that all those who have been definitively tested so far—Oliver Buell, Mosiah Hancock, Zebulon Jacobs, Moroni Pratt, and Orrison Smith—have been excluded. Would he have neglected, one wonders, to mention a positive DNA test?
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}

==Response to claim: 230 - in 1841 "Sarah Pratt firmly rebuffed Smith and remained monogamously committed to her missionary husband"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that in 1841 "Sarah Pratt firmly rebuffed Smith and remained monogamously committed to her missionary husband."
|authorsources=<br>
#Bennett, ''History of the Saints'', 228-31; "Workings of Mormonism Related by Mrs. Orson Pratt," 1884, LDS Archives.
}}
{{misinformation|The author here again follows Bennett completely uncritically. He tells us nothing about the multiple witnesses who testified to Sarah's adultery with Bennett.
}}
*[[Polygamy book/John C. Bennett|John C. Bennett]]

==Response to claim: 231 - "Cordelia C. Morley Cox rejected Joseph's "amorous proposal"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author speculates that "Cordelia C. Morley Cox...had rejected [Joseph's] amorous proposal."
|authorsources=<br>
#Cordelia Morley Cox, Autobiographical statement, Mar. 17, 1909, Perry Special Collections. 
}}
{{propaganda|The author again uses loaded language.  There is little evidence that Joseph's proposals were romantic or amorous.
}}
*[[Joseph_Smith/Polygamy/Did_women_turn_Joseph_down|Women who rejected plural marriage]]
*[[../../Mind reading]]

==Response to claim: 232 - Eliza Winters “perhaps did not” resist Joseph’s advances “but apparently talked about it all the same"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=It is speculated that Eliza Winters “perhaps did not” resist Joseph’s advances “but apparently talked about it all the same.”
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{disinformation|There is no evidence that Eliza ever said anything about this.
}}
*[[Polygamy_book/Early_womanizer#Eliza_Winters|Eliza Winters]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Eliza Winters}}

==Response to claim: 234 - "the posthumous sealing meant that Heber would be Smith's son in the eternities, not the son of his biological father"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim={{AuthorQuote|"According to LDS theology, the posthumous sealing meant that Heber would be Smith's son in the eternities, not the son of his biological father."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{misinformation|Heber was connected to Joseph because all believers had to be sealed into one large family.  This was no attempt to displace Heber's biological father, but grew out of the recognition that his father had not been a believer, and so had not accepted essential ordinances.  Later clarification under Wilford Woodruff encouraged believers to be sealed to their biological family, with the understanding that such matters would be sorted out through God's mercy and justice via proxy ordinances for the deceased.
}}
[[Temples/Baptism for the dead|Vicarious ordinances]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo Polygamy:See also:Taking away families}}

==Response to claim: 235 - It is claimed that in 1831 Joseph "directed missionaries to marry native American women"====
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=
It is claimed that in 1831 Joseph "directed missionaries to marry native American women."	
#No source provided.
*{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Early knowledge}}
}}
{{misinformation|Joseph did not direct them to marry the women.  None did so.  Joseph reported that God said that "It is my will, ''that in time'', ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites…." (italics added). That this might entail plural marriage was only realized three years later when Joseph was asked about it.  None of the missionaries in 1831 understood the plural marriage implication.
|authorsources=<br>
}}
{{:Question: Did the Church suppress a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 which encouraged the implementation of polygamy by intermarriage with the Indians in order to make them a “white and delightsome” people?}}
{{:Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians?}}

==Response to claim: 236a - Emma would have to sneak up on Joseph to check up on him==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|claim=
*The author hints that Emma would have to sneak up on Joseph to check up on him, as evidenced by “his warning to Sarah Ann to proceed carefully in order to make sure Emma would not find them in their hiding place.”
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda|Joseph’s hiding place from the mob and instructions to the Whitneys have been transmogrified into a hiding place for Joseph and Sarah Ann.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Whitney letter]]
*[[../../Use_of_sources#Sarah_Ann_Whitney_and_the_letter_to_the_Whitneys|Use of sources&mdash;Letter to Whitneys]]
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
*[[../../Mind reading]]
*[[../../Romance]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Love_letters_Whitney}}

==Response to claim: 236b - LeRoi Snow’s account about Emma and Eliza and the stairs "was accurate"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|claim=
The author asks us to “assume . . . that LeRoi Snow’s account [about Emma and Eliza and the stairs] was accurate.”
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{misinformation|Yet again, the author provides no hint that most researchers doubt this event.  He does nothing to deal with his sources' objections here or elsewhere.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Emma Smith/Eliza R. Snow and the stairs|Emma, Eliza, and the stairs]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Stairs}}

==Response to claim: 236c - "Just as Joseph sought comfort from Sarah Ann the day Emma departed from his hideout"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim={{AuthorQuote|"Just as Joseph sought comfort from Sarah Ann the day Emma departed from his hideout…."}}
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda|The author's version of Sarah Ann is again trotted out.
}}
*[[Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Whitney letter]]
*[[../../Use_of_sources#Sarah_Ann_Whitney_and_the_letter_to_the_Whitneys|Use of sources&mdash;Letter to Whitneys]]
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
*[[../../Mind reading]]
*[[../../Romance]]
*{{GLS-Nauvoo Polygamy-FARMS}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Love_letters_Whitney}}


==Response to claim: 237 - Joseph's "insatiable addition of one woman after another to an invisible family"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author refers to what he calls Joseph's "insatiable addition of one woman after another to an invisible family…."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
}}
{{propaganda|If Joseph was "insatiable," ("unable to be satisfied") how could he avoid entering into marriages for the last nine months of his life?
}}
*[[../../Mind reading]]
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Womanizing and romance}}

==Response to claim: 237 - Joseph had a "prolonged dalliance with Fanny Alger"==
{{IndexClaimItemShort
|title=Nauvoo Polygamy
|claim=The author claims that Joseph had a "prolonged dalliance with Fanny Alger."
|authorsources=<br>
#No source provided.
{{propaganda|They were married: it wasn't a "dalliance".
}}
*[[Polygamy_book/Introduction_of_the_eternal_marriage|Fanny Alger&mdash;affair or marriage?]]
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language]]
*[[Polygamy book/Initiation of the practice]]
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Hancock_ignored}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Fanny Alger}}
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Womanizing and romance}}

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