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|claim={{AuthorQuote|"…the 1846 temple sealings, which re-comemorated previously conducted plural marriages, were carefully noted in Nauvoo temple records."}} | |claim={{AuthorQuote|"…the 1846 temple sealings, which re-comemorated previously conducted plural marriages, were carefully noted in Nauvoo temple records."}} | ||
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|claim=In Nauvoo, Joseph is claimed to have "appropriated church members' charitable donations for real estate speculation, buying low and selling high to those immigrants who could afford to pay." | |claim=In Nauvoo, Joseph is claimed to have "appropriated church members' charitable donations for real estate speculation, buying low and selling high to those immigrants who could afford to pay." | ||
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|claim={{AuthorQuote|"A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her."}} | |claim={{AuthorQuote|"A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her."}} | ||
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|claim=The author claims that Dallin H. Oaks' assertation that the "abatement of newspapers publishing scandalous or provocative material" was not considered a violation of freedom of the press at the time draws "no distinction between the destruction of a newspaper without a trial and a libel charge being tried in the courts." | |claim=The author claims that Dallin H. Oaks' assertation that the "abatement of newspapers publishing scandalous or provocative material" was not considered a violation of freedom of the press at the time draws "no distinction between the destruction of a newspaper without a trial and a libel charge being tried in the courts." | ||
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|claim=The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate. | |claim=The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate. | ||
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|claim={{AuthorQuote|"Instead of evaluating a difficult past in order not to repeat it, the church leadership tried to separate its troubles from their apparent causes."}} | |claim={{AuthorQuote|"Instead of evaluating a difficult past in order not to repeat it, the church leadership tried to separate its troubles from their apparent causes."}} | ||
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|claim=William Clayton's "discussion of plural marriage was at once turned into a charge of having had 'unlawful intercourse with women.'" | |claim=William Clayton's "discussion of plural marriage was at once turned into a charge of having had 'unlawful intercourse with women.'" | ||
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|claim=The author mentions that Andrew Jenson published about plural wives, only to have Wilford Woodruff complain about him having done so. The author has continuously argued that the Church has striven to hide or suppress knowledge of polygamy. | |claim=The author mentions that Andrew Jenson published about plural wives, only to have Wilford Woodruff complain about him having done so. The author has continuously argued that the Church has striven to hide or suppress knowledge of polygamy. | ||
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|claim=Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt that a “few years ago [I] tried to get affidavits regarding Joseph Smith and ‘celestial marriage.’ . . . I was astonished at the scarcity of evidence. I might say almost total absence of direct evidence upon the subject as connected with the prophet Joseph himself.” | |claim=Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt that a “few years ago [I] tried to get affidavits regarding Joseph Smith and ‘celestial marriage.’ . . . I was astonished at the scarcity of evidence. I might say almost total absence of direct evidence upon the subject as connected with the prophet Joseph himself.” | ||
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|claim=The author implies that Latter-day Saints "accepted as sufficient" that Joseph Smith's death was "due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about." | |claim=The author implies that Latter-day Saints "accepted as sufficient" that Joseph Smith's death was "due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about." | ||
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|claim=The author notes that "[o]ne LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage." | |claim=The author notes that "[o]ne LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage." | ||
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|claim=The author cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…." | |claim=The author cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…." | ||
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Chapter 6 | A FAIR Analysis of: Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage", a work by author: George D. Smith
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Author's quote: "…the 1846 temple sealings, which re-comemorated previously conducted plural marriages, were carefully noted in Nauvoo temple records."
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Censorship of Church History (edit)
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In Nauvoo, Joseph is claimed to have "appropriated church members' charitable donations for real estate speculation, buying low and selling high to those immigrants who could afford to pay."
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Author's quote: "A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her."
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John C. Bennett (edit)
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The author claims that Dallin H. Oaks' assertation that the "abatement of newspapers publishing scandalous or provocative material" was not considered a violation of freedom of the press at the time draws "no distinction between the destruction of a newspaper without a trial and a libel charge being tried in the courts."
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Nauvoo Expositor (edit)
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The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate.
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Author's quote: "Instead of evaluating a difficult past in order not to repeat it, the church leadership tried to separate its troubles from their apparent causes."
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William Clayton's "discussion of plural marriage was at once turned into a charge of having had 'unlawful intercourse with women.'"
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William Clayton (edit)
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The author mentions that Andrew Jenson published about plural wives, only to have Wilford Woodruff complain about him having done so. The author has continuously argued that the Church has striven to hide or suppress knowledge of polygamy.
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Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt that a “few years ago [I] tried to get affidavits regarding Joseph Smith and ‘celestial marriage.’ . . . I was astonished at the scarcity of evidence. I might say almost total absence of direct evidence upon the subject as connected with the prophet Joseph himself.”
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Censorship of Church History (edit)
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The author implies that Latter-day Saints "accepted as sufficient" that Joseph Smith's death was "due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about."
|authorsources=
Censorship of Church History (edit)
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The author notes that "[o]ne LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage."
|authorsources=
Censorship of Church History (edit)
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The author cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…."
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