The term anti-Mormon is used to describe a person or group actively opposing Mormonism. It does not refer to groups of people who don’t understand the Church, or disagree with or criticize it.  An anti-Mormon represents a more extreme category.  For anti-Mormons, the existence of the Mormon Church is something that cannot be tolerated, whether for religious reasons, or political and social ones. ...

On September 11, 1857, a train of emigrants from Arkansas and Missouri driving cattle to California were ambushed and killed in what is now known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. An already brutal and tragic affair, Mormon Church detractors exploit the incident to defame a faith. The purpose of this article is not to defend the perpetrators, but to give proper historical context and sift fact from...