Nobel-laureate Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and a top official from the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should use his stature in the Mormon Church to block its members from posthumously baptizing Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Their comments followed reports that Mormons had baptized the deceased parents of Wiesenthal, the late Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter. Wiesel appeared in a church database used to identify potential subjects of baptisms.
Posthumous baptisms of non-Mormons are a regular practice in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members believe the ritual creates the possibility for the deceased to enter their conception of Heaven.
(But what I want to know is, does that make them -- like regular Mormons -- eligible for their own planet?)
Of all the LDS eccentricities, baptizing dead people has to rank right up there with magic underwear (does Mitt, or doesn't he?) and the belief that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. Missouri?
(I like Mormons; they make Catholics look normal.)
But I can't decide what's sillier: Mormons baptizing dead people, or caring that Mormons are baptizing dead people.
Take my father, for example. He died two years ago at age 90. For all I know, he may be getting baptized in the LDS Church right now. Do I care? Heck, no. Have at it, Mormons. Knock yourselves out!
Just quit hassling me.
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