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Tau, No matter how many times “Mountain Meadow Massacre” is talked about, it is the exception and not the rule.

Tau: In 1858, Brigham Young was given that "exception" a22freeman is talking about by being handed a pardon for his part in the MMM atrocities.

Tau: If what a22freeman was "so," then Mormons would have turned evidence vs. a number of the killers involved...instead of ONLY ONE that was ever tried and convicted. (IOW, it became THE "MORMON RULE" in the 19th century -- and those who lived into the 20th century with special knowledge about these atrocities -- to hide the info...)

Young and other Mormon leaders have all excused the Mormon mass-murderers -- at least 42 known Mormons by never bringing them to justice...or even ex-communicating them (two were; but were reinstated later -- one while still alive; the other after his death)...

Per Mitt Romney, who addressed the MMM during his 2007 presidential campaign in response to a reporter’s question: “That was a terrible, awful act carried out by members of my faith,” he told the Associated Press. “There are bad people in any church, and it’s true of members of my church, too.”

Well...the MMM mass-murderers included...
...an Lds bishop,
...an Lds "to be" bishop,
...two stake presidents,
...a counselor to a stake president...
...and perhaps others higher up the chain...
(So much for people -- like Mitt Romney -- claiming there's "murderers" in every church...such "murderers" in other churches aren't readily elevated to--or retained as -- church leadership...like what happened with these mass murderers)

One of the Mormon stake presidents had been in that role about a year when the massacre occurred...as a "reward" for his part in the slaughter, Lds "prophets" Brigham Young and John Taylor left him in that role. He (William Dame) wound up serving 24 years as an Lds stake president (1856-1880).

I'm sorry...but as "a rule," known leaders in massacres are not retained for 23 MORE years as church leaders.

Solid LDS church history researchers implicate William Dame's role in the massacre. It's not simply speculation. One Lds church historian even breaks it down perpetrator by perpetrator.