LDS Fail

[boudiceaborn]

This really should be illegal.

Someone petitioned the Mormon Church to have Ann Stanley Durham, Obama's mother, baptized into the LDS Church the day after he cliched the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Posthumous baptisms strike again.

This stuff creeps me out, even more so when it's done to Holocaust victims, which has been very well-

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let's keep religion and the law separate

[libathena]

If we could convince religious people that gays won't get married in their precious denomination, maybe they'd let us have legal gay marriage.

Re: let's keep religion and the law separate

[mustelidmania]

it took a lawsuit in 1978 for the LDS church president to have a "vision" to allow it's black members to be able to obtain priesthood in the church. Maybe that should happen again.

Re: let's keep religion and the law separate

[boudiceaborn]

Thing is, various Jewish groups have been filing lawsuits and having meetings with LDS people for 13 years or so - and they recently walked out of negotiations because there wasn't enough progress. This is a weird issue because I'm not convinced that the Constitition is sufficiently specific to outlaw baptizing someone's grandmother against their will!

Re: let's keep religion and the law separate

[boudiceaborn]

Yeah, but it's not just a religious issue, it's also a defamation issue, if a particular person wouldn't have wanted to be Mormon.

[empryss]

I thought the Jewish people won their suit. In any case, I know it's possible to put in your will not to have a posthumus baptism.

They just don't know that no means no

[boudiceaborn]

The Mormon church did sign an agreement in 1995, but since then some proxy baptisms have continued.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/11/national/main4591564.shtml

That's good that you can specify in your will not to be baptised - I can see how this would be really damaging to families if one set is Mormon and wants to 'save' grandad, and the other isn't and doesn't.
In the UK now a guy has won a petition to force church officials to remove records of himself being baptised into the Church of England, since he renounced the faith as an adult.