Difference between revisions of "Joseph Smith's marriages to young women"

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{{Epigraph|Presentism, at its worst, encourages a kind of moral complacency and self-congratulation. Interpreting the past in terms of present concerns usually leads us to find ourselves morally superior…Our forbears constantly fail to measure up to our present-day standards.<ref>Lynn Hunt, "Against Presentism," (President's Column) ''Perspectives'' 40/5 (May 2002).</ref><br>&mdash;Lynn Hunt, President of American Historical Association}}
 
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|L1=Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
 
|L2=Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
 
|L3=Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
 
|L4=Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
 
|L5=Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
 
|L6=Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
 
|L7=Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"
 
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{{:Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape?"}}
 
{{:Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball}}
 
 
 
 
 
{{:Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?}}
 
 
 
{{:Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?}}
 
 
 
{{:Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?}}
 
{{:Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?}}
 
{{:Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"}}
 
 
 
 
 
{{To learn more box:polygamy: young women}}
 
 
 
 
 
{{Critical sources box:Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Age of wives/CriticalSources}}
 
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