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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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*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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|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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− | # | + | #Cook, ''William Law'', 120. |
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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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|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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− | # | + | #Smith, ''Intimate Chronicle'', xlix-l. |
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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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− | # | + | #{{CriticalWork:Van Wagoner:Mormon Polygamy|pages=135}} |
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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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|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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− | # | + | #Joseph F. Smith to Orson Pratt Sr., 19 July 1875, Joseph F. Smith Letterbooks, Ms d 1325, Joseph F. Smith Collection, Church History Library and Archives. |
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Censorship}} | {{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Censorship}} | ||
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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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− | # | + | #The author lists these works but does not give page numbers. |
#Brigham H. Roberts, ''A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints'' (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1965). | #Brigham H. Roberts, ''A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints'' (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1965). | ||
#Joseph Fielding Smith, ''Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and The “Falling Away”'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1922). | #Joseph Fielding Smith, ''Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and The “Falling Away”'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1922). | ||
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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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− | # | + | #Kenneth W. Godfrey, “Causes of [Mormon ''sic''] Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839–1846” (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1967), chap 7. |
{{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Censorship}} | {{CriticalWorks:Smith:Nauvoo_Polygamy:See_also:Censorship}} | ||
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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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*Correct title is: "Causes of '''Mormon''' Non-Mormon Conflict…" {{ea}} | *Correct title is: "Causes of '''Mormon''' Non-Mormon Conflict…" {{ea}} | ||
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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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Chapter 8 |
Author's quote: "…the 1846 temple sealings, which re-comemorated previously conducted plural marriages, were carefully noted in Nauvoo temple records."
Censorship of Church History (edit)
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."
Author's quote: "A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her."
John C. Bennett (edit)
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."Author's sources:
- Edwin Brown Firmage and Richard Collin Mangrum, Zion in the Courts : a Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988), 112-13, 390n13 (Citing Oaks). ISBN 0252069803.
Nauvoo Expositor (edit)
The author follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate.Author's sources:
- Cook, William Law, 120.
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."
William Clayton's "discussion of plural marriage was at once turned into a charge of having had 'unlawful intercourse with women.'"Author's sources:
- Smith, Intimate Chronicle, xlix-l.
William Clayton (edit)
See also ch. 7: 445
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.Author's sources:
- Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), 135.
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.”Author's sources:
- Joseph F. Smith to Orson Pratt Sr., 19 July 1875, Joseph F. Smith Letterbooks, Ms d 1325, Joseph F. Smith Collection, Church History Library and Archives.
Censorship of Church History (edit)
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."Author's sources:
- The author lists these works but does not give page numbers.
- Brigham H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1965).
- Joseph Fielding Smith, Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and The “Falling Away” (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1922).
- William E. Berrett, The Restored Church: A Brief History of the Origin, Growth and Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Salt Lake City: Department of Education of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Deseret Book, 1958).
- Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, An Apostle; The Father and Founder of the British Mission (Salt Lake City: Kimball family, 1888).
- Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints, 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1992).
Censorship of Church History (edit)
The author notes that "[o]ne LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage."Author's sources:
- Kenneth W. Godfrey, “Causes of [Mormon sic] Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839–1846” (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1967), chap 7.
Censorship of Church History (edit)
The author cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…."Author's sources:
- Citation error
- Correct title is: "Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict…" (emphasis added)
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