Posted on 05/05/2009 5:48:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is investigating the posthumous "baptism" of President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, as a "serious breach" of religious code, a spokeswoman said.
Church records published by a liberal blog, Americablog, show that Dunham, who died in 1995, was baptised last June 4 in Provo, Utah, and received endowment, another sacrament, a week later.
"The offering of baptism to our deceased ancestors is a sacred practice to us and it is counter to Church policy for a Church member to submit names for baptism for persons to whom they are not related," said spokeswoman Kim Farah in an emailed statement. "The Church is looking into the circumstances of how this happened and does not yet have all the facts. However, this is a serious matter and we are treating it as such."
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Oh please....Mormons do this all the time. It’s a pantload for them to suggest otherwise.
don’t tell me—this will be another instance where info regarding this cannot be made public....
Baptism of the “dead” isn’t that a key element of Joseph Smiths’ bogus religion?
Who cares? There are two possibilities:
1. Mormonism is a fraud religion cooked up by a con artist. In that case, what a few idiots in a temple pray too is totally and completely meaningless and has no effect on you or your ancestors.
2. Mormonism is in fact the restored church of Jesus, in which case they just gave your ancestors eternal salvation.
Nothing bad can come from this, so I wish people would stop whining about it.
/not a mormon, I think its possibility #1
Soooooooooooo.
zer0’s Mom Stanley is (was) a Mormon? Like the church of Mitt type of Mormon?
I got Morman relatives. How does one figure out if they have been offering baptisms of the dead for members of my family?
Can this be researched online?
I’m curious as to who complained about this and how the investigation got started—although I doubt we’ll ever find out.
I also would have said that, as in the case of Holocaust victims mentioned in the article, Mormons have pretty commonly baptized just about everyone they can find records of. The vast extent of Mormon genealogical records is famous.
SOOOOO is she still alive?
That. It also bugs me that they come onto FR and post thier proselytizing garbage, not in the religion section, but in news and activism, all the while stating that religious dialogue is not allowed by the mods.
That's the sign of 1) a coward and 2) one who knows their religion was born in hell and perpetuated by a disciple of the devil.
You are a liar, and this stinks like a set up. “Mormons” don’t do this “all the time”. It is against the church rules, and whoever did it will be ex-commincated, so don’t say slanderous crap like that.
“It also bugs me that they come onto FR and post thier proselytizing garbage”
Only two people do that. The rest are anti-mormons trying to pi$$ off real mormons.
Hey restornun, here is some proof of all the good you are doing by taking it upon yourself to represent the LDS church. See post #12
She married two Muslims so I doubt it.
What about the apology they had to issue for baptizing Holocaust victims>
Totally bizarre.
The way I understand it, those who have died and are baptized by Mormon Proxies can either accept or reject that baptism while they wait for the Second Coming. Let the dead make up their own minds without trying to persuade them one way or the other.
Why all the objections from the living? Give the dead the right to choose for themselves.
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