"You are left to your own devices to figure out what is going on with Joseph Smith and polygamy,” he said. “The next step is to figure out what that means theologically. What does it mean, for example, that the prophet of the restoration married 14-year-olds and other people’s wives?” Of course no MORmON can answer that question honestly, so they just make up absurd lies, to cover for the sexual predator whose praises they sing.
“Saints” is not for scholars or even sophisticated Mormons, said Patrick Mason, chair of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University. “This is for the person who has never picked up a book of church history or a volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Project — and is never going to.”
It’s for members whose only exposure to Latter-day Saint history is the fictionalized series “The Work and the Glory,” he said, “or for new members who live in Brazil or Ghana.”
We all know how the church loathes being criticized for their 19th Century view of women's rights. So they added this piece about using pioneer women's diaries and journals.
Plus, Tait said, “some of our best sources are from women. Diaries, letters, autobiographies. Many of these women stayed with the church, came West, lived long lives and left behind great records.”
So in behalf of the faithful members that have donated their ancestor's personal journals to the church (for safe-keeping), where are their families' journals and diaries?
We've read here at RFM, that the church has been unable to locate them when requested.
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Yes. Many women left records. Thankfully many of those records were not turned into the church for safe keeping. Many were published independently. Many others have been published over the years by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.