baptism for the dead

Helen Radkey is a researcher who has publicized the LDS Church's proxy baptisms of Holocaust victims and Catholic Saints. In this 2009 photograph, she goes through some of her numerous boxes of research files on the baptisms that take up part of an extra bedroom in her home. Mormon church leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to gain access to already red-flagged names of Holocaust victims. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

LDS Church restricts access to Jewish names

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — LDS Church leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims the church has agreed not to posthumously baptize.

It seems that proxy conversions are all the rage these days

Racist homophobes, with latent polygamous tendencies, who have a thing for dead Jews.

That about cover it?

The public relations nightmare continues for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the latest brouhaha over the LDS practice of baptism for the dead.

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