In response to the movie Semptember Dawn Mountain Meadow Masacre I am disgusted.  That movie has nothing historical about it and is all Hollywoods version of the story.  This movie is clearly an attack on the Mormons and I find it unnecessary.  Why do people feel it is right to make movies and books that make other peoples religions look bad.  Just because we belong to different religions and have different views doesn't mean we have to persecute those that are different.  Back then Brigham Young never ordered the masacre of those people and the movie protrays this very wrong.  The mormons had trekked accross the plains to get away from mobs and persecution not to come here and persecute others.  This just comes to show how Hollywood portrays things in the world today.  I mean just look at what they are allowing into their movies.  Now a days it is common to see smoking, drugs, nudity, and sexual things and it is all being portrayed in such a way that makes it seem it is the only real way to live.  Hollywood is just obviously running out of ideas it must seem because they have to resort to comming in finding a story and then making their version of it.  I mean what happend to families and good values oh I forgot Hollywood got rid of that too.  It is common for Hollywood to portray marriage as just a short term commitment just a fun legal way to get your own personal pleasures.  Well all I have to say is way to go Hollywood I find you personally responsible for promoting the degrading and immoral things going on in the world today.  So as for the movie It is a totally fiction with nothing to do with the Mormons and what really happened.  Hollywood just has nothing better to do with their time then to help degrade, put down and demoralize others so that they can feel just a little bit better about their pathetic lives.

I have read John Dee Lee's account of this event along with any other account I could get my hands on.   I have also studied some of the Journal of Discourses.  The churches own treasured writings, i.e. Journal of Discourses and others,  really tell the whole story.  That is if you can get your hands on copies before the church decided to clean up much of it's history.  As far as the polygomy issue, it is soooo ridiculous that I don't know how a person can look the other way.  How many Mormons know that according to their church teachings they have to be polygomists to achieve their Celestrial kingdom, if not on earth then in the after life.   I don't care how they try to cover it up it was nothing more than Joseph Smith's justification for extra martial lusty affairs.  And the reason why it is not praticed today is because it is illegal. 

From every account of non-authorized history that I have read about Brigham Young, his was a blood thirsty tyrant. 

If Mormonism is not only true, but the one true church, with every non-Mormon destined to miss out on Heaven (or at the very least we'll end up in a 'lower level' of heaven)....then why do Mormons find it necessary to be so defensive and secretive about the history of their church?  I mean, every religion has their "dark spots"....some of those religions spend millions of dollars and years repaying and rectifying their past wrongs.  But with Mormons, they become so defensive.  Church officials and Mormon politicians scattle around at the slightest wiff of controversy to suppress evidence, make excuses and create alibis. 

My advice to Mormons:  If you believe in the doctrine of your Church and you believe that Mormonism is the true religion, then good for you.  Many people go their whole life without knowing what they truly believe.  BUT just because you are in the Church, and believe in it, doesn't mean you can't question the TRUE history of your church.  It doesn't mean you have to generally dismiss everything that comes down the pipe without questioning it.