@typoFaery, I skimmed. LOL. Thanks! :D 

IMO, if the Jewish people here on this site or anywhere else for that matter, take issue with what happened, then that's enough to tell me it's wrong.

aww thanks @mammateeroll I have my cell back on as of yesterday so I can text now :D

@mammateeroll yep yep :)

Oh my God, I've never seen this before, this is horrific and wrong.

@MommyDearest just to clarify a couple of things about infant baptism.  I'm Catholic and the reason we baptize at such a young age is to wash away original sin that we inherited by the acts of Adam and Eve as well as welcoming the child into the church family. Later you choose the sacraments of reconciliation (confession), Eucharist and to be confirmed which makes you a full member of the Church. During a baptism the child's parents and godparents make a promise to raise the child to know Jesus and to live as a Christian role model.  We are also asked reconfirm our baptismal promise every time we attend a baptism (they often happen during mass) and on Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday.  Just FYI :)

My husbands family is hard core Mormom and I live with their practices everyday. We, my household, is not Mormom but we my husband knows no other way of life.

That being said...

They do it all the time! My husband has been baptized probably 20-30x as a child for people who have past. I at one point had to make it clear that if I pass away, no one in his family is to baptize me. I was told by his sister, if she prays about it and receives a message to baptize me after death, she will. They feel that after death, we none believers find faith and send messages to have baptized us.

This isn't all Mormons, just some.

They follow the profit, who can change anything at anytime. Your right, they believe he talks directly to God.

They believe there are different levels to afterlife and that some true believers can see threw the shroud into after life. They are capable of receiving messages from people who have past.

Also, them baptizing Ann Frank, as rediculouse as that may be, they did it because someone honestly and truly feels they have received a message from her to do it. In order for it to have been approved, in had to be prayed upon by the elders and council. It actually was done out of love.

I agree it is the most rediculouse move ever, but if you don't believe it is capable of having any true warrant, what's the big deal?

I personality don't think it is a true baptism because I feel a person needs to request to be baptized and alive.

Oh, I know the "reason" behind it, @PhDMommy,  but it was still something that the Church made up and is not recommended or even mentioned in the Bible.  I was talking specifically about what the Bible says.

Sorry @MommyDearest I misunderstood your earlier comment.  I think it's a matter of interpretation....

We are not Mormon and are not Jewish, but I have recently found out through a friend of my mothers that the Mormon church now has listed my father as one of their members.  I can't figure out how to undue this or where to even complain. I know my father is rolling over in his grave over it.

Nope not a Mormon in our bunch - my mothers friend told us that its actually a common practice for "elders" to just look through death notices at the social security index and "convert" the names they find. 

I grew up Mormon too and did baptisms for the dead tons of time. (Left the church 2 years ago and have completely different views now).  They did change the rules to only be able to submit names that you have a blood line to, then you or whoever just shows up at the temple can do the proxy baptism for the submitted names.  They also seal family members together as a family unit for eternity.

Here's what they are thinking from someone who has done it.(again not my views now)  They belong to the ONE and ONLY true church and it is their responsibility to convert the world.  They believe that  those who die unbaptized to them are in a type of limbo (spiritual prison) until they decide with their free will to accept the "gospel".  So if that was true, one dies and realizes that the LDS church is true, they would want to be baptized into it, but can't because they don't have a body to do it.  So, the living members are baptized in proxy for them, JUST in case they do accept it in the afterlife.  It does NOT make them a member or convert them, it just makes the "saving ordinance" available for those they feel would be stuck in spiritual prison without it. The decease still choose it. Their intentions are good no matter how misguided.

The founder Joseph Smith Jr. didn't even teach this.  The man who took over after he was killed changed everything and is responsible for this as other doctrines that Brigham Young added or changed.  Brigham was deeply affected by the death of his first wife. 

I'm sorry my past actions have offended many.  At the time, it was done with the same compassion any religious person feels when they THINK they are doing god's will and helping his children. (yup i was arrogant and prideful) It was seen as giving a precious gift to someone waiting in the afterlife.  I'm glad they at least changed the rules to family line only submittals.  It's rather ridiculous to me now.  I believe all religions have a hand fucking up this world, this is just another example.  Baptism is just symbolic anyway...thinking it must physically be done in any religion is just as insane as the Mormon's view of proxy.

This is absolutely sick and a slap in the face to the Jewish people who suffered and died in the Holocaust!!! What they went through was horrendous and one of the darkest times in history! to insult her memory by implying that she needs to be baptized as a mormon is absolutely ridiculously abhorrent!!!!! What the fuck is wrong with some people??????

@
Luvlyssa  so where could I find out if this is indeed happened?? 

Ok so I'm going out on a limb here and reveal something about myself that I normally don't. It is called Baptism for the Dead or Baptism by Proxy. You don't have to be related to someone to suggest them or to be baptized for them. The Mormons consider that their church is the only true church so they take the 'responsibility' of trying to make sure that every living person has the chance to choose it. And..,if you lived in a time or place where you didn't get to make the choice, baptism for the dead gives you that chance. It is not a baptism into membership but into having a choice.

That being said the church has agreed to discontinue generic baptisms for victims of the Holocaust but there are apparently some sneaky temple workers getting some through.

I did get baptized for the dead when I was 13 in the Provo Utah temple. I no longer practice the religion but my value system is deeply rooted in that culture. My great grandmother was a handcart pioneer and walked from Missouri to Idaho at the age of 9. My grandfather was baptized in a warm, coal pond in Wales at age 10 and emigrated to Utah at 18.

I now swear way too much and am too much of a deviant to be a part of any freakin church. I'm not sure if that means my BFTD efforts will stick if for some crazy reason the Mormons end up being right about all this crap. Im not sure what ill say at the Pearly Gates if they are right. Like, uh ya God, i was a chosen one and born right into your latter day church and then... I walked away. Hmm its not looking good right now is it?

I just tell DH I'll wait for him in the dark. I'm okay with that.

@LuvLyssa! Lol where have you been? Ya I thought that would catch your attention. Have you thought about what you'll say if they're right?