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| − | ==Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?==
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| − | ===Helen allegedly said "I would never have been sealed to Joseph had I known it was anything more than ceremony"===
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| − | Critics of the Church provide a supposed "confession" from Helen, in which she reportedly said:
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| − | I would never have been sealed to Joseph had I known it was anything more than ceremony. I was young, and they deceived me, by saying the salvation of our whole family depended on it.<ref>Catherine Lewis, ''Narrative of Some of the Proceedings of the Mormons'' (Lynn, MA: n.p., 1848), 19.</ref>
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| − | ===The source of the statement is "suspect"===
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| − | Author Todd Compton properly characterizes this source, noting that it is an anti-Mormon work, and calls its extreme language "suspect."<ref>{{CriticalWork:Compton:Sacred Loneliness|pages=195}}</ref>
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| − | Author George D. Smith tells his readers only that this is Helen "confiding," while doing nothing to reveal the statement's provenance from a hostile source.<ref>{{CriticalWork:Smith:Nauvoo Polygamy|pages=202}}</ref> Newell and Avery tell us nothing of the nature of this source and call it only a “statement” in the Stanley Ivins Collection;<ref>{{CriticalWork:Newell Avery:Mormon Enigma|pages=147}}</ref> Van Wagoner mirrors G. D. Smith by disingenuously writing that “Helen confided [this information] to a close Nauvoo friend,” without revealing its anti-Mormon origins.<ref>{{CriticalWork:Van Wagoner:Sidney Rigdon|pages=293}}</ref>
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| − | ===In order for this story to be true, Helen would be telling a story at variance with all other things that she wrote===
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| − | To credit this story at face value, one must also admit that Helen told others in Nauvoo about the marriage (something she repeatedly emphasized she was not to do) and that she told a story at variance with all the others from her pen during a lifetime of staunch defense of plural marriage.<ref>On Helen’s authentic statements, see Helen Mar Whitney, A Woman’s View: Helen Mar Whitney’s Reminiscences of Early Church History, ed. Jeni Broberg Holzapfel and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1997), ix–xliii.</ref>
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