Posted on 05/21/2012 11:22:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Reporting from Carrollton, Arkansas, the Washington Post finds some locals still upset with actions of a "Mormon militia" over 150 years ago. The Post reports:
On Sept. 11, 1857, a wagon train from this part of Arkansas met with a gruesome fate in Utah, where most of the travelers were slaughtered by a Mormon militia in an episode known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Hundreds of the victims’ descendants still populate these hills and commemorate the killings, which they have come to call “the first 9/11.”But the main concern of the paper is ... will this hurt Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney?Many of the locals grew up hearing denunciations of Mormonism from the pulpit on Sundays, and tales of the massacre from older relatives who considered Mormons “evil.”
The article, headlined "Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith tangles with a quirk of Arkansas history," attacks Romney for being a Mormon, because, according to the paper, his coreligionists and ancestors were responsible for "the first 9/11." …
Keep in mind: Romney is 65. He was not a part of or responsible for the massacre in any way. Nevertheless, the Post justifies its publication of the story by writing, "Still, Romney’s candidacy has prompted some soul-searching in this area, where a historical group estimates that more than half the residents can trace their ancestry back to the wagon train."
And everyone (even Romney!) already apologized for the massacre, anyway. … Only halfway through the article do we learn that it was actually the Mormons who generally faced persecution. …
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But don’t you dare mention Reverend Wright.
I’m still pissed with the damn Hatfields.
I’m sure there’s plenty of worse events in the history of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya if we care to look that up, but just like this story it isn’t really relevant to the 2012 election.
Are all Christians responsible for what happened during the middle ages, reformation, inquisition, etc.? Are all Muslims responsible for the centuries of slavery, militant forced conversions, stonings, female mutilations, etc.? If not, how is Gov. Romney implicated in something 150 years ago? Could the legacy media be anymore in Obama’s pocket?
Well, I’ll take this precedent ANY DAY, so long it is applicable in the claims that Obama is a Taleban supporter because he is muslim.
This just in..Romney has no alibi for Pompeii volcano in 79 A.D...volcano affected women and LBGT’s..could hurt 2012 campaign..developing..
It’s the truth, and it should come out. Mitt should have marched out of the oppressive connections of the Mormon Church, just like Obama should have walked away 20 years ago from Jeremiah Wright.
I still blame Obama for the Watts Riots...he will crreathe climate for many more this summer.
Well, I am 50 and I’m still responsible for slavery.
Apparently.
I don’t know how they found out about my German ancestors having serfs way back when...
Am I misunderstanding you?
Once a Jewish person, to whose home I'd been invited for a dinner party, ordered me to leave when he found out my ancestry was German. It didn't matter to him that my German relatives came to Texas in the mid 1800's. He somehow associated any German with the atrocities of Hitler.
Having no ancestors on either side of the Peloponnesian Wars, I take full responsibility. Oops. No, I don’t. I’m not a Lib.
Has Obama apologized for the Siege of Vienna?
Siege of Vienna. 1643. Over by the buring church......That’s it!!!!! I knew I had seen him somewhere before...
Siege of Vienna. 1643. Over by the buring church......That’s it!!!!! I knew I had seen him somewhere before...
The Meadow Mountain Massacre is hardly a secret. Blaming Romney for it is stupid, but it’s interesting to see you’re a WaPo supporter.
And yet Hitler was Austrian, and many Jews buy German cars. I would have laughed in the bigot’s face. At least you got a good story to tell.
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