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Wiesel to Romney: Tell Mormons to stop baptizing dead Jews
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Feb 14, 2012 02:25pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 08:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Prominent Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has called on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to “speak to his own church” and ask them to stop performing posthumous proxy baptisms on Jews.
The demand, reported on the Huffington Post website, comes after members of the Mormon church, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), baptized the dead parents of famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, an act that provoked a storm of criticism and led to an apology from the church.
The site also reported that Wiesel’s name, as well as those of his father and maternal grandfather, had been entered into a database for the deceased, sometimes an early part of the process leading toward posthumous baptism. The members involved apparently were unaware that the Nobel Peace Prize winner was still alive.
"I think it's scandalous. Not only objectionable, it's scandalous," Wiesel, 83, told the HuffPost. |
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