Helen Mar Kimball

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The Prophet said...that it [plural marriage] would damn more than it would have because \so many/ unprincipled men would take advantage of it, but that did not prove that it was not a pure principle. If Joseph had had any impure desires he could have gratified them in the style of the world with less danger of his life or his character, than to do as he did. The Lord commanded him to teach & to practice that principle.

—Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Letter to Mary Bond, n.d., 3-9 quoted in Brian Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History, Vol. 1, 26-27. off-site

Helen Mar Kimball

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• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

Helen Mar Kimball

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• Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
• Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

Helen Mar Kimball

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• Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
• Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

Helen Mar Kimball

Jump to Subtopic:

• Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
• Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

Helen Mar Kimball

Jump to Subtopic:

• Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
• Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

Helen Mar Kimball

Jump to Subtopic:

• Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
• Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

Helen Mar Kimball

Jump to Subtopic:

• Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
• Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
• Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"

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Source(s) of the criticism

Critical sources

Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, Mormonism 101. Examining the Religion of the Latter-day Saints (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2000), 254. ( Index of claims ) Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, 2nd edition, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 147. George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage" (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008), 201-202. ( Index of claims , (Detailed book review)) Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 2005), 293–294. (Reviews)

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