325

• 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

• Use of sources: "wonderful lustful spirit"
• 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)
• See also ch. 8: 532

• No source provided.

333

• G.D. Smith again relies on presentism.
• 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.
• Polygamy/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder
• Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Presentism
• 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)

• No source provided.

333

• The murder of Parley P. Pratt is claimed to be "the proximate cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre."

• Use of sources: Pratt murder proximate cause of MMM?
• Polygamy/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder

• Scott F. and Maurine J. Proctor, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (1874; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 586-99.

334

• Did Parley P. Pratt engage in "theological philanderings?"

• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Loaded and prejudicial language
• 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)

• No source provided.

345

• Edwin Wooley married Louisa Chapin Rising as a polygamous wife even though she was not divorced from her legal husband.

• Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Presentism
• 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)
• See also ch. Preface: flyleaf

• No source provided.

351

• Ezra Taft Benson was "a correspondent of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover…."

• It is not clear what relevance this has to Benson, plural marriage, or anything else, save perhaps that it associates the church president with a figure now regarded as repressive, megalomaniacal, and something of a sexual deviant.
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Loaded and prejudicial language

• 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)