356

• The author assumes that "[e]fforts to suppress the story" of polygamy in Nauvoo until the 1852 announcement "restricted the breadth and depth of the records that were kept."

•  Internal contradiction: The author claims elsewhere that the History of the Church had material expurgated; we now learn that most of this material was not in the primary documents (such as Joseph's journals) because of secrecy concerns in the 1840s.
• Censorship and revision of LDS history
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Censorship
• 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.

Censorship of Church History (edit)

• See also ch. Preface: xiii, xiii-xiv, and xv
• See also ch. 1: 5
• See also ch. 2: 57 and 75
• See also ch. 2a: 88, 103, 119, 137, and 185
• See also ch. 4: 289
• See also ch. 6: 356
• See also ch. 8: 453 and 473

356

• After 1890 the church tried to "phase out a practice the prophet had mandated as essential to salvation."

• The author ignores the nuances of LDS thought on this, both before and after the Manifesto.
• Polygamy a requirement for exaltation?
• Brigham Young: is polygamy essential to salvation?

• No source provided.

Necessary for salvation? (edit)

• See also ch. Preface: xiv
• See also ch. 1: 6
• See also ch. 2: 55
• See also ch. 6: 356

356

• "Official accounts" of plural marriage have been "redacted."

• This assumes that "official accounts" existed to begin with.
• Censorship and revision of LDS history
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Censorship
• 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.

Censorship of Church History (edit)

• See also ch. Preface: xiii, xiii-xiv, and xv
• See also ch. 1: 5
• See also ch. 2: 57 and 75
• See also ch. 2a: 88, 103, 119, 137, and 185
• See also ch. 4: 289
• See also ch. 6: 356
• See also ch. 8: 453 and 473

364-365

• Joseph and Brigham are claimed to have admitted that the practice of polygamy meant they were "free to go beyond the normal 'bounds'" and "the normal rules governing social interaction had not applied to" Joseph.

• The author misconstrues and misrepresents the statements cited.
• Polygamists are to go beyond normal "bounds"?
• 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)

• Brigham Young Manuscript History, Feb 16, 1849, LDS Archives.

366

•  Author's quote: "Elizabeth [Whitney] was arranging conjugal visits between her daughter, Sarah Ann, and [Joseph]…."

• The Sarah Ann Whitney distortion makes its appearance yet again.
• Joseph Smith and polygamy/"Love letters"
• Use of sources—Letter to Whitneys
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Loaded and prejudicial language
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mind reading
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Romance
• 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.

Whitney "love letter" (edit)

• See also ch. Preface: ix
• See also ch. 1: 31
• See also ch. 2: 53, 54, 63, and 65
• See also ch. 2a: 137, 138, 142, 142-143, 147, and 155
• See also ch. 3: 185, 190, 236a, 236c, and 366

392

• The book has a subsection in "How Plural Marriage Worked," entitled "Female subordination."

• The author does nothing to compare the 19th-century LDS practice of marriage with Victorian marriage in general.
• Female subordination in 19th century
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Loaded and prejudicial language

• No sources provided.

400

• Joseph Lee Robinson is claimed to have said: "There are some on this stand that would cut my throat or take my hearts blood" if he told them what God had revealed to him.

• The statement comes from the Joseph Robinson journal, but the statement is not from Robinson—it is from Joseph Smith. The author recognized this in an earlier article.^[1]

•  Citation error
• Robinson Journal, 24, Utah State Historical Society Library.

408

• Did Joseph flee from three states because he had been suspected of "suspicious relationships with young women?"

• Fanny Alger certainly caused problems in Ohio. There is no good evidence, however, that Joseph had "woman problems" in New York or Missouri.

• No source provided.

408

• Was Joseph arrested after the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor for violating "freedom of the press?"

• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Presentism#.22Freedom_of_the_press.22
• Nauvoo Expositor

• No source provided.

Nauvoo Expositor (edit)

• See also ch. Preface: xii
• See also ch. 4: 285
• See also ch. 6: 408
• See also ch. 7: 435