If Mitt Romney became President, would the Mormon church....?

Question

Baptize all 38 dead presidents? After all they have done it with pretty much every dead celebrity, political figure, ancetsor of any living Mormon (hence the genealogy fixation), and my person favorite, Holocaust Victims!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead

Answer 1

The Simon Wiesenthal Center protested so much that the Mormons agreed to take his name off the list. I guess Simon won't proceed on to "godhood" now.

December 20, 2006

Reuters

In life, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was among the most famous Jews of the 20th century.

In death, he wound up on a list of people eligible to be posthumously baptised as Mormons so they could enter heaven.

Bowing to protests from Jewish groups, The Church of Latter Day Saints has removed Wiesenthal's name from its International Genealogical Index, a database of names of people who be could be baptised after death.

A church spokesman said the Nazi hunter's name was taken off the list after receiving a complaint from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish human rights group named in his honour.

Rabbi Marvin Heir, the dean and founder of the group, said, "From their point of view they thought they were doing him a favour by making sure he can get into heaven.

"For us, it is very offensive. Simon Wiesenthal dedicated his whole life to Jews. I don't think he needs help getting into heaven."

In 1995, after the Wiesenthal Centre learned that the church was baptising Holocaust victims posthumously, the church agreed to stop the practice and removed 400,000 names from the index.

Mormon church spokesman Bruce Olsen said Wiesenthal was off the list. He also said it is policy "that members submit only names of their own ancestors for vicarious baptisms" and that the 1995 agreement was still in force.

Answer 2

Would everybody please quit freaking out about the Mormon Church!!!!!

You don't know for sure that they have baptized every dead celebrity or political figure. That's assumption, not fact.

They stopped baptizing Holocaust victims even though they were members of the family of a member who had received permission from other family members.

What makes a president who lets his secretary lick him in the oval office and then deny everything under oath so much more palatable and more acceptable than someone trying to live by a moral code?

What makes an outright socialist and communist (in the form of ex-president's wife) so much more palatable than someone trying to protect freedom and liberty and the Bill of Rights?

Quit freaking out about the Mormons and leave them alone. I would rather have a bunch of them living on my block than the current gang bangers and drug dealers that have ruined the neighborhood.

Answer 3

The Mormons believe we all lived in Heaven with Heavenly Father, several Heavenly Mothers, and 20 Billion Heavenly Siblings before we were born here on Earth. Then there was a war. The good guys won and were born White. The bad guys lost and became demons. Those who were neutral or did not fight bravely were born with non-white skin. The bravest of the brave were born to Mormon families.

We all know that Romney must have been a "Valliant Warrior" in the "War in Heaven" during the "Pre-Existence". How else could he have been born "White and Delightsome" to an LDS family here on Earth? Heck, he was probably one of the Commanding Generals . Now , America needs a President with valuable military experience like that to get us through our war in Iraq. Could you please ask "The One and Only True Prophet", Gordon Hinkley, to please release those valuable records to the public? We need to know what battles he fought in. How many medals he won. How many of the "Less Valliant Soldiers" he recommended being born with black skin when they got their chance to be born on Earth. Was Al Sharpton one of THEM ? How about Jesse Jackson? Mormons, this is your chance to show the world the light of the everlasting gospel. Dont miss out. We have General Romney running for president of the USA and we need you badly right now!

Answer 4

LOL...Mitt Romney will NOT become president.

It's pretty amusing that the GOP dilemma this time around is that none of the candidates are bigoted enough, or bigoted in the right way, to appeal to the bigoted base. The problem with Romney is that he's the wrong brand of Christian. Most "Evangelicals" and "fundie" types would sooner vote for a Catholic. They need a Bush to get their juices flowing with promises to stone homosexuals and criminalize masturbation.

Answer 5

Despite protests to the contrary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints will probably interfere as much,if not more, in the political agenda of a Romney presidency as the lunatic religious right has manipulated the Bush presidency.

Answer 6

Baptism will occur whether Mitt becomes President or not, this point is completely irrelevant.

I guess you feel threatened by the idea that God may want to save all His children, even those who might have died before they could hear the Gospel.

Answer 7

A lot of questions about religion and politics today. I do not think if Romney becomes president his religion will have any more effect on our country than the previous presidents did.

Answer 8

Mormons believe that everone should have the chance to be baptized even those who have already passed on, and then they can choose to accept it or not in the hereafter. They just like to give everyone that chance.

Answer 9

Why, did they do the same with Massachusetts governors, you goofball...?

If you want to either live in fear of something senseless (like your topic) or want to pick-on Romney for whatever your reasons (specifically) -- how about the fact that the guy's first-name is KERMITT? Try a President Kermitt on for size... that's at least funny. Your rant is just plain dopey.

Answer 10

Are you serious? A president's religion has nothing to do with the job except, of course, his knowing the difference between right and wrong.

We do not live in a theocracy. Move to Iran if you want one of those...