Commentary: Mormons know what it’s like to be a persecuted minority — so pass a hate-crime law for Utah

Visitors to the historic Salt Lake City Cemetery may encounter a 15-foot-tall monument to a man they’ve never heard of. The memorial, dedicated in 1880, marks the final resting place of Joseph Standing, who had been violently murdered a year prior while serving as a Mormon missionary in northern Georgia. Carved on the sides of the monument are the names of the 12 members of the lynch mob who killed Standing in what the memorial accurately calls a shameful act of “bigotry and prejudic