Talk:Doctrine and Covenants

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I pulled this, because I think this line is a bizarre bit of trivia that is not important to the article:

The Doctrine and Covenants is often abbreviated as "D&C" which many within Mormonism dislike because the abbreviation is also used for a medical procedure, dilation and curettage, related to abortion. --John Hamer 02:04, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I pulled this, because the source was not cited and the statement could not be verified.

In 1876, the original Section 101 was removed^{[citation needed]}. Written and adopted in Joseph Smith's absence, it had included the text:

"Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication, and polygamy: we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife; and one woman but one husband, except in the case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again."

Replacing this section is the current Section 132, which discusses the now-discontinued doctrine of plural marriage.

--Caysyka 12:17, 26 Nov 2006

There should be information in the article on what version if any the FLDS church uses. 69.234.53.82 07:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Why LDS Church and CofC removed Lectures on Faith

In the lead paragraphs, an editor (Jgstokes) keeps providing a "reason" that the Lectures on Faith were removed from the D&C. The "reason" provided by the editor is the reason given later in the article for the LDS Church removal, but this is not necessarily the same reason it was removed by the Community of Christ. The "reason" for removal should be left to the discussions of the D&C in each individual church, not in the lead paragraph, since both the LDS Church and the Community of Christ removed the doctrine section of the D&C independently and at different times.

This article is for the D&C as published by both the LDS Church and Community of Christ (as well as other churches), which is perhaps the source of the confusion. It is not just about the LDS Church D&C. Snocrates 04:38, 20 December 2007 (UTC)