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What do you know about this practice among Mormons? Do you think it is wrong? Do you care if they do this for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Family members of Daniel Pearl, the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em> reporter who was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists while on assignment in Pakistan in 2002, were disturbed to learn this week that he had been\u00a0posthumously baptized by Mormons<\/a> at a temple in Idaho. The news came just weeks after Mormon leaders apologized for a church member\u2019s posthumous baptism of\u00a0the parents of Simon Wiesenthal<\/a>, the famous Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. According to the Utah-based researcher who uncovered the records, the list of prominent Jews whose souls have come in for the treatment may also include\u00a0Anne Frank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMormons think of baptisms for the dead as a service to others, almost like adding family members\u2019 names to a guest list,\u201d\u00a0Slate<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s Forrest Wickman recently\u00a0explained<\/a>. In response to outcry from Jewish groups, however, church leaders have removed the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims and others from its rolls. Still, they haven\u2019t been able to stamp out the practice entirely. Are the families of those who\u2019ve been baptized posthumously justified in taking offense? Should they be touched by the Mormon Church\u2019s concern?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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