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|sublink1=Response to claim: 205 - The 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants had a section denouncing polygamy | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 207 - Section 101 was replaced with Section 132 in 1876 | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 207 - A revelation on plural marriage given in 1831 was "suppressed" which said that the Indians would become "white and delightsome" | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 208-209 - Spencer Kimball believed that the Indians were becoming a "white and delightsome" people | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 212 - Brigham Young believed that the Indians skin would become white through intermarriage | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 214 - Church leaders did not approve of interracial marriage | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 215 - Oliver Cowdery believed that Joseph had an improper relationship with Fanny Alger | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 219 - Lorenzo Snow said that anyone who had a plural marriage prior to the date of the revelation (July 12, 1843) was living in adultery | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 219 - It is claimed that Mormon leaders say that the 1843 revelation was actually received earlier | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 220 - Brigham Young said that he lived "above the law" | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 220 - Polygamy is forbidden by the Book of Mormon | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 220-221 - Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt said that the Book of Mormon forbid polygamy | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 222 - Joseph took wives without his first wife's consent | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 225 - It is claimed that LDS leaders were worried that the missionaries would "take the best women" | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 226 - Heber C. Kimball remarked on the "great sorrow" of plural marriage | |||
|sublink17=Response to claim: 226 - Brigham Young spoke of the "problems" of plural marriage | |||
|sublink18=Response to claim: 228 - Brigham Young offered to let any wife go who wanted to | |||
|sublink19=Response to claim: 230-231 - Joseph and Emma fought about plural marriage | |||
|sublink20=Response to claim: 231 - Joseph had between 27 to "sixty or more" wives | |||
|sublink21=Response to claim: 231 - There is a rumor that Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, preventing her from having Joseph's child | |||
|sublink22=Response to claim: 233 - Brigham Young had "fifty or sixty" wives, and boasted of his ability to obtain more | |||
|sublink23=Response to claim: 234 - Mormon men believed that they "could have all the wives they wanted." Heber C. Kimball said that in the resurrection, he could have "thousands" of wives | |||
|sublink24=Response to claim: 236 - Joseph asked for other men's wives, such as the wife of Heber C. Kimball | |||
|sublink25=Response to claim: 237 - Joseph married Heber C. Kimball's daughter, Helen | |||
|sublink26=Response to claim: 239 - Joseph married Zina, the wife of Henry Jacobs | |||
|sublink27=Response to claim: 239 - Brigham Young publicly told Henry Jacobs to find another wife | |||
|sublink28=Response to claim: 239-240 - Some women who were associated with Joseph claimed that they did not know who the father of their children were | |||
|sublink29=Response to claim: 243 - Joseph performed a "pretended" marriage for time for Sarah Ann Whitney to Joseph Kingsbury | |||
|sublink30=Response to claim: 245-246 - The Bible prohibited a man from marrying sisters or mothers and daughters, therefore Mormon polygamy was not Biblical | |||
|sublink31=Response to claim: 246-247 - Joseph sealed brothers and sisters together | |||
|sublink32=Response to claim: 248 - Brigham said that monogamy was a "fruitful source of prostitution and whoredom" | |||
|sublink33=Response to claim: 249 - Some Mormons believed that Joseph taught that Adam had two wives | |||
|sublink34=Response to claim: 249-251 - Early Church leaders taught that Jesus was married to more than one wife | |||
|sublink35=Response to claim: 258 - Brigham Young said that the "only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy" | |||
|sublink36=Response to claim: 258-259 - Polygamy was practiced in secret and denied publicly | |||
|sublink37=Response to claim: 262-263 - John Taylor stated that he believed in keeping every law except the law against polygamy | |||
|sublink38=Response to claim: 263 - Brigham Young said the polygamy would never go away | |||
|sublink39=Response to claim: 270-281 - Polygamy was practiced after the Manifesto was issued | |||
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Index to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism
A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FairMormon Answers Wiki.