Mormons Apologize For Posthumous Baptisms Of Holocaust Victims

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Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon temple ritual.

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letzelfarm United States	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #1 Feb 14, 2012 Judged: 1 1 They acknowledged that a member of their church made a terrible mistake and took decisive action to correct it. They also made a public apology. That is good enough for me - we all make mistakes.
Osirica Oak Park, MI	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #2 Feb 14, 2012 Judged: 1 1 No no no... we're first. They still have "blacks were cursed" in their scriptures. We've been pushing for their apology for that. So you have to wait in line. Sorry.
Dana Robertson “Too much LDS in the 60's” Since: Sep 10 6,313 Merced, CA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #3 Feb 15, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 This isn't the first time they have been caught doing this. Why isn't there someone going through the names checking for this before they send these names out to a temple? From what I also understand, because they have a shortage of names, they are the same names to several temples at the same time to make work for the members to do.
fedupwiththemess Ashburn, VA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #4 Feb 17, 2012 Dana Robertson wrote: This isn't the first time they have been caught doing this. Why isn't there someone going through the names checking for this before they send these names out to a temple? From what I also understand, because they have a shortage of names, they are the same names to several temples at the same time to make work for the members to do. When you do stuff that is not from biblical scripture and start making up mess...trouble always follows.
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