All religions have regrettable incidents in their past. What matters is how they've grown since they happened, and deal with the real, modern world.
Indeed. I've yet to see any evidence that the Mormons - or almost any religion - have done so, however.Well, Maybe the Wiccans. They're pretty cool. And no mass-murders in their - albeit short - history, either. Their religious tenets are actually quite similar to my political ones.
Keep grasping at tenuous straws, and you'll begin to strongly resemble the fundamentalist nutjobs you get so worked up into a hateful froth over. 
It's hardly grasping at tenuous straws to point out a mass murder that was a) perpetrated by a group of people professing a certain belief system, and b) incited by that same belief system.Quote
Today historians attribute the massacre to a combination of factors, including war hysteria about possible invasion of Mormon territory, and strident Mormon teachings against outsiders. Scholars debate whether senior Mormon leadership, including Brigham Young, directly instigated the massacre or if responsibility lay with the local leaders in southern Utah.
PS Mormons are great preppers. They open their food canning centers to the rest of the public too. How nice of them!
They are. Have you asked one why, though? The answer should be enlightening.