Smith’s Improper Advances to Sarah Pratt

A Book of Mormons, p. 211; “When Pratt returned from a mission to Great Britain, he found that Church leaders had withdrawn his wife’s food allotment and were accusing her of adultery with John C. Bennett. She countered that Joseph Smith had proposed she become one of his ‘celestial wives,’ and that Brigham Young had urged her to say nothing, but ‘do as Joseph wished.’” – Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker

Leviticus 19:16; “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.”

While this might be a difficult thing to discuss with a Mormon, it’s something worthwhile to explore in conversation if you have the opportunity.

By the time this fiasco rolled around in the Nauvoo timeline Smith had 22 wives so it’s not hard to believe Sarah Pratt’s allegations at all.  

When Orson returned from his mission trip in Great Britain, she told her husband straightaway of the disturbing event and suffice it to say, they excommunicated Orson…oh the tangled web they weave…