1864: John C. Bennett and Homosexuality in Nauvoo - Pt 3 w/ LDS Discussions
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
The team discusses controversial allegations of sexual impropriety against Joseph Smith and John C. Bennett in Nauvoo, the existence of the Danites as a violent vigilante group, Bennett's subsequent exposes of Mormonism after his excommunication, the succession crisis and various Mormon offshoots after Joseph Smith's death, and questions around the authenticity of Mormon truth claims such as the golden plates. There is debate around the accuracy of some historical sources, as well as acknowledgment that early Mormonism contained cult-like elements such as polygamy and unquestioning loyalty tests.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:04.0 | John Delinn. It's January 25th, 2024 and we are here to discuss part three of our LDS |
| 0:11.6 | discussion series. |
| 0:13.5 | Today we're going to be talking about John C. Bennett, |
| 0:15.9 | Joseph Smith's right-hand man, and homosexuality |
| 0:19.4 | in Navu, Illinois during the final years of Joseph Smith's life. This is part of the |
| 0:25.1 | LDS discussion series. If you're this the first time you've joined us on Mormon |
| 0:29.2 | stories or on LDS discussions. We want to strongly recommend that you pause this. |
| 0:34.4 | Go back to the beginning. This is like the 50th of the 51st episode of LDS discussions. |
| 0:40.4 | It's |
| 0:45.0 | trying to discuss, explore Mormon Church truth claims and as neutral and objective and as fact-based of a |
| 0:49.0 | foundation as we can and these episodes build on each other. |
| 0:53.2 | So you can go to YouTube, the LDS Discussions playlist. |
| 0:56.7 | You can go to Spotify, you can go to Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:59.4 | wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | There should be a L discussions series there you can start from the |
| 1:06.2 | very beginning you can watch it on YouTube you get the best experience if you |
| 1:09.7 | watch it either on Spotify or on YouTube but you're also very welcome to listen to it on any |
| 1:15.9 | podcast platform that you prefer. This series is well loved and we're so thrilled that it's |
| 1:22.0 | continuing. We want to welcome back on the show |
| 1:25.0 | Mike the father of LDS discussions. Hey Mike. Hey everybody how's it going? |
| 1:32.0 | Mike has a website called Eldis Discussions.com where he wrote a gazillion amazing essays and you can read all this research that he did. |
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