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*Practices regarding marriage and divorce differed substantially from the 20th or 21st century.  Smith also tells us nothing about McComb's tyrannical and abusive husband, making him appear the wronged party.
 
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*There were many causes of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, not just something that can be labeled "the proximate cause." (Smith gives links to various treatments on pp. 298–299, n.107—this is a refreshing, if rare, example of him providing links to the relevant literature which advocate different views.)
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*While Pratt's murder doubtless increased the LDS sense of alienation, President Brigham Young counseled peace and patience, and Pratt's murder was "old news" before the Fancher train arrival (it went unmentioned, for example, in accounts of the Mormons receiving news of the approaching federal army).
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*Far from being the proximate cause, Pratt's murder was a minor factor which played little role in the tragedy of Mountain Meadows.  G.D. Smith's attempt to make a murder related to polygamy into the proximate cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre is ahistorical. Scott F. and Maurine J. Proctor, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (1874; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 586-99.
 
 
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Chapter 4
A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: George D. Smith
 Chapter 6
Page Claim Response Author's sources

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 After Joseph's death, Rhoda Richards was sealed to "her cousin Brigham Young."
  • 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, G. D. Smith’s remark is utterly irrelevant in its historical context.
  • See also ch. 3: 205
  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Presentism
  • No source provided.

327

 "Orson Hyde reported seeing a 'wonderful lustful spirit' on his visit to the polygamous Cochranite community….In 1834 he acquired his own lustful spirit in Marinda Johnson…."
  • No source provided.

333

 Parley P. Pratt's "last wife, Eleanor McComb McLean…was sealed to him without divorcing her legal husband, who fatally shot Parley near Van Buren, Arkansas…."
  • No source provided.

333

 The murder of Parley P. Pratt was "the proximate cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre."
  • Scott F. and Maurine J. Proctor, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (1874; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 586-99.

334

 Parley P. Pratt engaged in "theological philanderings."
  • No source provided.

345

 "though she [Louisa Chapin Rising] was not divorced from her legal husband, she agreed to marry [Edwin Woolley]" in polygamy.
  • No source provided.

351

 Ezra Taft Benson was "a correspondent of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover…."
  • No source provided.
  • Gregory L. Smith, A review of Nauvoo Polygamy:...but we called it celestial marriage by George D. Smith. FARMS Review, Vol. 20, Issue 2. (Detailed book review)
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