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*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.
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*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, the author’s remark is utterly irrelevant in its historical context.
 
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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, the author’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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