My favorite new website is All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay. It’s a simple game: enter the name of a dead Mormon, or the site will choose one for you, and with the click of a mouse, the deceased LDS member is instantly converted to homosexuality.
Of course, this makes no sense, and is somewhat offensive. But then, so are the views of some (though not all) Mormons that the dead can be posthumously baptized – or at least given the offer of baptism (which, since they now can evaluate their options with better facts handy, they will presumably accept). In the Jewish community, this practice has long provoked outrage, now peaking again with news that some Mormons are trying to “convert” Anne Frank, who is close to a saint for contemporary Jews. (Before we knew of this practice, by the way, many Jews loved going to Mormon “genealogy” centers to research their family histories. I did so in Salt Lake City 25 years ago. Now I know I was providing the names of family members to be posthumously baptized.
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