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− | *The Church has allowed these records to be seen by researchers and even published by Signature Books.{{ref|sig1}} This seems a strange course of action for an organization determined (as | + | *{{AuthorQuote|"…the 1846 temple sealings, which re-comemorated previously conducted plural marriages, were carefully noted in Nauvoo temple records."}} |
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+ | *The Church has allowed these records to be seen by researchers and even published by Signature Books.{{ref|sig1}} This seems a strange course of action for an organization determined (as the author repeatedly insists) to "expurgating" the history of plural marriage. | ||
*[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history]] | *[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history]] | ||
*[[../../Censorship]] | *[[../../Censorship]] | ||
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− | ||In Nauvoo, Joseph " | + | || |
+ | *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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*Joseph had, in fact, signed a note for the land—thus going into debt himself. He sold land at variable prices, charging those who could afford more money so that he could give free or cheap land to the poor. | *Joseph had, in fact, signed a note for the land—thus going into debt himself. He sold land at variable prices, charging those who could afford more money so that he could give free or cheap land to the poor. | ||
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− | ||"A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her." | + | || |
+ | *{{AuthorQuote|"A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her."}} | ||
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*the author fails to tell us that Francis was, in fact, Nancy's boyfriend and her suitor. He also neglects to mention that Francis had contracted a venereal disease from a prostitute, had been seducing women under John C. Bennett's tutelage, and may have engaged in a homosexual relationship with Bennett. | *the author fails to tell us that Francis was, in fact, Nancy's boyfriend and her suitor. He also neglects to mention that Francis had contracted a venereal disease from a prostitute, had been seducing women under John C. Bennett's tutelage, and may have engaged in a homosexual relationship with Bennett. | ||
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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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*The author's "reply" to Dallin Oaks is a ''[[Logical_fallacies#Non_sequitur|non sequitur]]''. Oaks (and Firmage and Mangrum) demonstrate at length that both Illinois and U.S. law had ample precedent in case law and practice for the abatement of the ''Expositor''. | *The author's "reply" to Dallin Oaks is a ''[[Logical_fallacies#Non_sequitur|non sequitur]]''. Oaks (and Firmage and Mangrum) demonstrate at length that both Illinois and U.S. law had ample precedent in case law and practice for the abatement of the ''Expositor''. | ||
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− | ||The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate. | + | || |
+ | *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. | *The author completely ignores the primary documents on this issue, and relies only on Law's hostile, and demonstrably false, account. | ||
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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|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.}} | *{{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.}} | ||
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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. | + | || |
+ | *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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− | ||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.” | + | || |
+ | *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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*If the church had scant evidence in 1875, what evidence did those compiling the ''History of the Church'' more than twenty years earlier have? This speaks directly to Smith's complaints about the ''History of the Church''. | *If the church had scant evidence in 1875, what evidence did those compiling the ''History of the Church'' more than twenty years earlier have? This speaks directly to Smith's complaints about the ''History of the Church''. | ||
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− | *The author cites five works for this 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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+ | *The author cites five works for this claim. All five, contrary to his claim, discuss the role of plural marriage in Joseph Smith's martyrdom, as well as other facts. | ||
*[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage|LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage]] | *[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage|LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage]] | ||
*[[../../Censorship]] | *[[../../Censorship]] | ||
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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." | ||
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*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. | *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. | ||
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+ | *The author cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…." | ||
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*Correct title is: "Causes of '''Mormon''' Non-Mormon Conflict…" {{ea}} | *Correct title is: "Causes of '''Mormon''' Non-Mormon Conflict…" {{ea}} |
Chapter 6 | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: George D. Smith
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