Should the Mormons of today have to explain why they hold a man, who most likely was involved in ordering the MMM and who spent years denying it and covering it up, in such high regard?
Brigham Young.
Please show us your proof of Brigham Young was involved not your wishful thinking?
No, that is not the truly relevant point. When the DNC goons start to smear Romney, they will accomplish it through ridicule of his religion, the origins of same. That is relevant to his mindset that he would follow a fantasy so easily exposed as anti-Christian and peppered with absurdities which Apologists will twist themselves and scriptures into gnots trying to defend, exposing further the astonishing absurdities and thea nti-Christian doctrines at the heart of Mormonism. What BY or other Mormons 150 years ago did is accountable to those that lives 150 years ago, not to Mormons living today. BUT if the Mormon Church continues to try and spin the History as they have in the past, THAT will be acocuntable to them as foolishness.
You know what else I find odd?
1870-71 About this time, Young meets with Lee, Haight, Dame, and others involved in the massacre. Historians suggest that Young singles out Lee to take the blame, confident in the belief that Lee will do as he is told at any trial. Lee is excommunicated.
July 23, 1875
The trial of John Lee opens in the courtroom of Judge Jacob Boreman. Payment for Lee's defense is arranged by Brigham Young. The prosecution's star witness is Philip Klingensmith.
Now, why in the world would Young arrange for paying for the defense of a man he had already excommunicated???