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The author does not tell us that Madsen's work (which he cites for his claim) demonstrates that Joseph properly discharged all his financial duties as guardians of the Lawrence estate. The author completely ignores the primary documents on this issue, and relies only on Law's hostile, and demonstrably false, account.
 
The author does not tell us that Madsen's work (which he cites for his claim) demonstrates that Joseph properly discharged all his financial duties as guardians of the Lawrence estate. 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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*This poem in fact demonstrates the author's distortion.  Her concern was indeed that she was "bar'd out from social scenes"—she could not date while married.  This does not mean, however, that there were sexual relations, and the author's source agrees.

Revision as of 22:14, 18 March 2009


Chapter 2 (pp. 108-255)
A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: George D. Smith
 Chapter 4

Chapter 3

Page Claim Response Author's sources

159
  •  Author's quote: "several days after Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, and Ebenezer Robinson declined to affirm Smith's good character…."
  • The three were Pratt, Rigdon, and George W. Robinson, not Ebenezer. (See Manuscript History, 29 August 1842; History of the Church 5:139; Faulring, American Prophet's Record, 254).
  •  Citation error
  • History of the Church 5:125, 139.

160
  • Governor Carlin described the Nauvoo statute on writs as an "extraordinary assumption of power….most absurd and ridiculous…[a] gross usurpation of power that cannot be tolerated."
  • History of the Church 5:153-55.

Nauvoo city charter (edit)

  • See also ch. 1: 2
  • See also ch. 2a: 139
  • See also ch. 3: 160, 161, and 163

161
  • The Nauvoo charter is claimed to be "the basis for this presumption of independence from state jurisdiction…."
  • The author cites chapter 2 of the present work. However, no argument or justification for this claim is provided in the previous chapter either.

Nauvoo city charter (edit)

  • See also ch. 1: 2
  • See also ch. 2a: 139
  • See also ch. 3: 160, 161, and 163

162
  • The author claims that it is "interesting" that The Peace Maker, a non-member's defence of polygamy, "appeared during the hiatus in the erstwhile marriage frenzy of 1842 and while Smith's apostles were traveling the countryside to counter Bennett's words and deny polygamy."
  • The author does not discuss the many differences between The Peace Maker and LDS doctrine.
  • The author and his source also ignore the arguments which had been raised against Joseph's participation or approval. See:
    • Eli B. Kelsey, "A Base Calumny Refuted," Millennial Star 12 no. 6 (15 March 1850), 92–93.
    • Kenneth W. Godfrey, “Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839–1846” (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1967), 96-97.
    • Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005), 445–446.
  • Lawrence Foster, "A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842," Dialogue 9 (Winter 1974): 21–34.

163
  • The book claims that Latter-day Saints were expelled from Illinois "primarily because of the dominant sense they betrayed public trust."
  • The author here over-simplifies an extremely complex issue, with no references or argument. See:
    • Kenneth W. Godfrey, "Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846," Ph.D. thesis (1967), Brigham Young University.
  • No source provided. He merely asserts and moves on.

185
  • Joseph's "summer 1842 call for an intimate visit from Sarah Ann Whitney…substantiate[s] the intimate relationships he was involved in during those two years."
  • No source provided.

Whitney "love letter" (edit)

185
  • The author claims that the History of the Church "predictably gives no notice of these weddings."
  • No source provided.

Censorship of Church History (edit)

190
  • The "pretended marriage" of Joseph Kingsbury to the polygamously-married Sarah Ann Whitney is postulated by the author to "have been a precaution against possible pregnancy."
  • No source provided.

Whitney "love letter" (edit)

193
  • Lucy Walker "told Joseph she required a revelation before she would submit [to plural marriage]. He promised that if she prayed, she would receive her own personal manifestation from God, which she reported she received 'near dawn after—a sleepless night"—when a "heavenly influence" and feeling of "supreme happiness…took possession" of her."
  • Littlefield, Reminiscences, 48; Smith, Intimate Chronicle, 100, 557.

196
  • The author presumes that financial and marital issues, "especially concerning the Lawrence sisters" would eventually "inflame public opinion" and result in Joseph's arrest.

The author does not tell us that Madsen's work (which he cites for his claim) demonstrates that Joseph properly discharged all his financial duties as guardians of the Lawrence estate. The author completely ignores the primary documents on this issue, and relies only on Law's hostile, and demonstrably false, account.

  • Gordon Madsen, ‘The Lawrence Estate Revisited: Joseph Smith and Illinois Law regarding Guardianships,’ Nauvoo Symposium, Sept. 21, 1989, Brigham Young University.

198
  • The author speculates that there existed a "conflict of interests between building a church community and [Joseph's] continuing affection for young women."
  • No source provided.

Ages of wives (edit)

  • See also ch. Preface: ix
  • See also ch. 1: 1, 22, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 44
  • See also ch. 2: 53
  • See also ch. 2a: 142-143
  • See also ch. 3: 198
  • See also ch. 6: 408

198
  • The author claims that Joseph was "pursuing" Helen Mar Kimball.
  • No source provided.

Womanizing & romance (edit)

201
  • Helen's biographer concludes that she 'expected her marriage to Joseph Smith' to be a ceremony 'for eternity only,' not an actual marriage involving physical relations.
  • There is no evidence for physical relations in Helen's marriage to Joseph. The source cited, Compton, does not agree with the author's reading: “there is absolutely no evidence that there was any sexuality in the marriage, and I suggest that, following later practice in Utah, there may have been no sexuality. All the evidence points to this marriage as a primarily dynastic marriage.”[1]
  • 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)
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball

201
  • The author claims that Helen Mar Kimball was surprised to discover "that it included [marriage for] time also: a physical union at age fourteen with a thirty-seven year-old man."
  • The author again distorts the source. The surprise was not in finding that she needed to have "a physical union," but that she was regarded as married, and so could not date others her age while Joseph was alive.
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball
  • 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)

201
  •  Author's quote: "As she put her ambivalent feelings into verse in her "Reminiscences," Helen had "thought through this life my time will be my own," but "the step I am now taking's for eternity alone." She saw her "youthful friends grow shy and cold" as "poisonous darts from sland'rous tongues were hurled." She was "bar'd out from social scenes by this destiny," and faced "sad'nd mem'ries of sweet departed joys"
  • This poem in fact demonstrates the author's distortion. Her concern was indeed that she was "bar'd out from social scenes"—she could not date while married. This does not mean, however, that there were sexual relations, and the author's source agrees.
  • In addition to hiding Compton's conclusion, the author does not tell us that his Kimball source likewise concluded that the marriage with Helen was “unconsummated.”
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy/Helen Mar Kimball
  • 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)
  • Stanley B. Kimball, Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer (Ubana: University of Illinois Press, 1981): 109-110.

205

 "That [Rhoda Richards] was her husband Brigham's cousin was apparently secondary to the grander scheme of interlocking the hierarchy in marriage."
  • 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. 5: 325
  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Presentism
  • No source provided.

214

 "Even though Smith and Clayton spent three hours preparing the eloquent language" of D&C 132….
  • Presumes or implies that Joseph Smith and William Clayton were the author(s).
  • Clayton would testify: "Joseph commenced to dictate the revelation on celestial marriage, and I wrote it, sentence by sentence, as he dictated. After the whole was written, Joseph asked me to read it through, slowly and carefully, which I did, and he pronounced it correct."[2]
  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Loaded and prejudicial language
  • No source provided.

217

 "Smith found it useful to reference the conditional restriction on marriage found in the Book of Mormon."
  • No source provided.

Joseph Smith: cynical motivations (edit)

  • See also ch. 4: 252

225-226

 The author intends Joseph to be seen as arrogant. He quotes a letter from Joseph to James Arlington Bennet:
“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth . . . diamond truth; and God is my ‘right hand man.’”

The author then editorializes:

“With such a self-image, it is not surprising that he also aspired to the highest office in the land: the presidency of the United States.”
  • The author fails to tell us that Joseph's remarks are a tongue-in-cheek reply to Bennet's previous letter.
  • Joseph Smith's narcissism
  • No source provided.

226

 The author again quotes Joseph: "‘I am learned, and know more than all the world put together."
  • The author does not quote enough of Joseph's remarks to complete his thought.
  • The author also avoids quoting the better versions of this talk, from the Times and Seasons, BYU Studies, or even Signature Books.
  • Joseph Smith's narcissism
  • 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)
  • History of the Church 6:222–223.

227

 "There is no reason to doubt that Smith's marriages involved sexual relations in most instances."
  • We have evidence of sexual relations for only nine wives.
  • 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.

227

 "Mary Elizabeth Lightner spoke of 'three children' whom she said she 'knew he had.'"
  • The Life & Testimony of Mary Lightner (Salt Lake City: Kraut's Pioneer Press, n.d.); "Mary E. Lightner's Testimony, As Delivered at Brigham Young University)," [punctuation sic] Apr. 14, 1905, 41-42, complied by N.B. Lundwall, LDS Archives, at Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

228-229

 "Until decisive DNA testing of possible Smith descendants—daughters as well as sons—from plural wives can be accomplished, ascertaining whether Smith fathered children with any of his plural wives remains hypothetical."
  • This is true, but the author fails to tell us that all those who have been definitively tested so far—Oliver Buell, Mosiah Hancock, Zebulon Jacobs, Moroni Pratt, and Orrison Smith—have been excluded. Would he have neglected, one wonders, to mention a positive DNA test?
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages
  • 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.

230

 "In 1841, Sarah Pratt firmly rebuffed Smith and remained monogamously committed to her missionary husband."
  • The author here again follows Bennett completely uncritically. He tells us nothing about the multiple witnesses who testified to Sarah's adultery with Bennett.
  • John C. Bennett
  • Bennett, History of the Saints, 228-31; "Workings of Mormonism Related by Mrs. Orson Pratt," 1884, LDS Archives.

231

 "Cordelia C. Morley Cox….had rejected [Joseph's] amorous proposal."
  • Cordelia Morley Cox, Autobiographical statement, Mar. 17, 1909, Perry Special Collections.

232

 Eliza Winters “perhaps did not” resist Joseph’s advances “but apparently talked about it all the same.”
  • There is no evidence that Eliza ever said anything about this.
  • Eliza Winters
  • 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.

Eliza Winters (edit)

  • See also ch. 1: 28-29 and 29
  • See also ch. 3: 232

234

 "According to LDS theology, the posthumous sealing meant that Heber would be Smith's son in the eternities, not the son of his biological father."
  • Heber was connected to Joseph because all believers had to be sealed into one large family. This was no attempt to displace Heber's biological father, but grew out of the recognition that his father had not been a believer, and so had not accepted essential ordinances. Later clarification under Wilford Woodruff encouraged believers to be sealed to their biological family, with the understanding that such matters would be sorted out through God's mercy and justice via proxy ordinances for the deceased.
  • Vicarious ordinances
  • No source provided.

Sealing takes away families? (edit)

  • See also ch. 2: 77
  • See also ch. 3: 234

235

 [In 1831 Joseph] "directed missionaries to marry native American women."
  • No source provided.
  • Early preoccupation with polygamy (edit)
  • See also ch. Preface: xiv
  • See also ch. 1: 12, 15-16, 16-20, and 29
  • See also ch. 3: 235
  • See also ch. 4: 259-260

236a

 The author hints that Emma would have to sneak up on Joseph to check up on him, as evidenced by “his warning to Sarah Ann to proceed carefully in order to make sure Emma would not find them in their hiding place.”
  • No source provided.

Whitney "love letter" (edit)

236b

 G. D. Smith asks us to “assume . . . that LeRoi Snow’s account [about Emma and Eliza and the stairs] was accurate.”
  • Yet again, the author provides no hint that most researchers doubt this event. He does nothing to deal with his sources' objections here or elsewhere.
  • Emma, Eliza, and the stairs
  • No source provided.

Emma, Eliza & stairs (edit)

236c

 "Just as Joseph sought comfort from Sarah Ann the day Emma departed from his hideout…."
  • No source provided.

Whitney "love letter" (edit)

237

 Joseph's "insatiable addition of one woman after another to an invisible family…."
  • No source provided.

Womanizing & romance (edit)

237

 Joseph had a "prolonged dalliance with Fanny Alger."
  • No source provided.

Ignoring Hancock autobiography (edit)

Fanny Alger (edit)

Womanizing & romance (edit)

Endnotes

  1. [note]  Todd M. Compton, “Response to Tanners,” post to LDS Bookshelf mailing list (no date), <http://www.lds-mormon.com/compton.shtml> (accessed 2 December 2008). Compare with Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy, 198–202, 302, 362 and Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 14.
  2. [note]  See Smith, An Intimate Chronicle, 558; see also History of the Church 5:xxxii; citing William Clayton, affidavit, 16 February 1874, Salt Lake City, Utah; originally published in Andrew Jenson, "Plural Marriage," Historical Record 6 (May 1887): 224-226.

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