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Date: May 26, 2013 05:17PM
For many years, the summary read:
"Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded 12 July 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, and also the plurality of wives (see History of the Church, 5:501–7). Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831."
With hundreds of thousands of Latter-day Saints going online since the mid-1990s and learning was an adulterous scumbag JS was and resigning from the Morg, TSCC has changed the summary for D&C 132 to:
"Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant and the principle of plural marriage. Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, evidence indicates that some of the principles involved in this revelation were known by the Prophet as early as 1831." (Ref.
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132?lang=eng)
Crucially, two of the "principles involved in this revelation...known by the Prophet since 1831" were, per D&C 132:61:
"And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse [marry] a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first [wife] give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else."
Todd Compton's masterful and illuminating 1997 book, "In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith", revealed that JS desired to "espouse" not only "virgins", but other men's wives (i.e., non-virgins, each vowed to her husband). That habit, stupid as it was, alone made him an adulterer. For those not familiar with it, the list of the 11 married women is online at
http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/Another 'faith'-busting Mormon historical fact is that JS repeatedly did not ask "the first" wife - Emma, in his case - to obtain "her consent" if he could "espouse another" virgin. For example, Lucy Walker, a Mormon teenager in Nauvoo whom JS pressured to become his plural wife in the early 1840s, wrote: "Emma Smith was not present and she did not consent to the marriage; she did not know anything about it at all." (Ref.
http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/23-LucyWalker.htm)
Why was Emma unaware that her 37-year-old philandering husband was marrying - illegally - yet another female in the Latter-day Saint community? "Emma was in St. Louis buying supplies for the Nauvoo hotel," says the LucyWalker.htm webpage.
The historical evidence is clear: the LD$ Church's so-called "prophet" of the Restoration", Joseph Smith, was a consummate liar, manipulator, and sexual predator.