MORMONS STILL TRYING TO BAPTIZE DEAD JEWS

Mormons cancel Wiesenthal proxy baptism (JTA)
The Mormon church agreed not to posthumously baptize Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints agreed to a request from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and removed the name of the famed Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter from a list of those scheduled to receive the ordination by proxy.
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No church ordinance was performed for Simon Wiesenthal and his name was immediately removed from the International Genealogical Index,” said Bruce Olsen, a church spokesman.

The Mormons agreed in 1995 to remove the names of Holocaust victims and Jews from a list of those to be posthumously baptized unless they were direct ancestors of current church members or written permission had been obtained from all living family members. But they didn’t honor the agreement and reiterated the pledge in 2000.

However, Wiesenthal’s name was found last month in a database of people to be posthumously baptized. “It was astonishing to us that they went against the agreement,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center. “We believe that Simon Wiesenthal, who lived a full life with great deeds on behalf of mankind, can get to heaven on his own and doesn’t need any assistance.”