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Revision as of 21:42, 12 November 2014

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Response to claims made in "Chapter 18: Nauvoo"


A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: Fawn Brodie

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Claim
  • Over the years, the stories of Josephs healings of the sick in Nauvoo multiplied.

Response
 FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources

269 - Nauvoo had a brothel near the temple

The author(s) of No Man Knows My History make(s) the following claim:

Nauvoo had a brothel near the temple.

Author's sources: *Times and Seasons 2:599 (Aug. 2, 1841)
  • Wasp 1:26 (Oct. 15, 1842)

FAIR's Response

  • The brothel was run by John C. Bennett; the Mormons eventually pushed the whole thing into a ravine.
  •  Misrepresentation of source: Brodie does not disclose the opposition of Joseph and the Mormons to the brothel, as described in her cited source(s).
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Claim
  • Joseph's bodyguards in Nauvoo were the remnants of the Danite band.

Response
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