"Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith tangles with a quirk of Arkansas history"-- A Quirk? We are talking about a Massacre by Mormons

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-mormon-faith-tangles-with-a-quirk-of-arkansas-history/2012/05/20/gIQAKHVFeU_story.html

The title's "a quirk" I assume is Washington DC contempt for Arkansas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Mormons of a wagon train of Arkansas women and children is not a "quirk" of Arkansas history. Cousins of mine, I learned yesterday, were slaughtered, among them children.

The start of the article:

Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith tangles with a quirk of Arkansas history

CARROLLTON, Ark. — On the wildflower-studded slopes of the Ozarks, where memories run long and family ties run thick, a little-known and long-ago chapter of history still simmers.
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.”