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− | || | + | ||The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate. |
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− | * | + | *The author completely ignores the primary documents on this issue, and relies only on Law's hostile, and demonstrably false, account. |
**[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate|Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate?]] | **[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate|Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate?]] | ||
*{{GDS-See also|3|196}} | *{{GDS-See also|3|196}} | ||
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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.'" | ||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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− | *{{InternalContradiction| | + | *{{InternalContradiction|The author told us earlier only that in England Clayton "was personally suspected of ‘having had unlawful intercourse with women.’” He said nothing about this being due only to Clayton's discussion of the matter.}} |
*Smith still does not tell us, though, that the charge came from an “apostate Mormon,” whom Clayton claimed had maliciously distorted his words. | *Smith still does not tell us, though, that the charge came from an “apostate Mormon,” whom Clayton claimed had maliciously distorted his words. | ||
*[[William Clayton and polygamy]] | *[[William Clayton and polygamy]] | ||
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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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*He does not tell us that the reason Woodruff was worried was because at the time (1887) federal marshals were pursuing and jailing polygamists and their wives who refused to testify. Woodruff was trying to keep members out of jail, not trying to suppress polygamy. | *He does not tell us that the reason Woodruff was worried was because at the time (1887) federal marshals were pursuing and jailing polygamists and their wives who refused to testify. Woodruff was trying to keep members out of jail, not trying to suppress polygamy. | ||
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||"One LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage." | ||"One LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage." | ||
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− | *Contrary to | + | *Contrary to the author's claim, Godfrey's cited chapter is entitled "plural marriage," and he discusses it at length there and in his abstract and conclusion. |
*[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage|LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage#Godfrey]] | *[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage|LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage#Godfrey]] | ||
*[[../../Censorship]] | *[[../../Censorship]] |
Chapter 6 | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: George D. Smith
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Chapter 8 |
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"…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) |
423 |
In Nauvoo, Joseph "had 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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429 |
"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) |
435 |
"Dallin H. Oaks asserted that the 'abatement of newspapers publishing scandalous or provocative material' was not considered a violation of freedom of the press at the time….drawing 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) |
438–439 |
The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate. |
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442 |
"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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445 |
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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446 |
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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447 |
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) |
449 |
"Mormons accepted as sufficient the explanation 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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Censorship of Church History (edit) |
450 |
"One LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage." |
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Censorship of Church History (edit) |
450 n. 106 |
Smith cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…." |
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