Here we go again. The tricky Mormon church this time was caught performing a posthumous (after death) baptism of one of the most iconic Holocaust victims we know, Anne Frank... Apparently this tricky mormon church has baptized Anne Frank against her will and against the will of the entire Jewish people.
It really makes me angry that this church feels it has the right to use the name of righteous victims of the holocaust in order to advance their cult.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/23/national/a145517S69.DTL&tsp=1Claim surfaces of Anne Frank baptism by MormonsBy BRIAN SKOLOFF and MICHELLE RINDELS, Associated Press
Thursday, February 23, 2012
(02-23) 17:13 PST SALT LAKE CITY, (AP) --
A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank.
The allegations come just a week after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized when it was brought to light that the parents of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized by church members at temples in Arizona and Utah in late January.
Researcher Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who revealed the Wiesenthal baptisms, said this week she found Frank's name in proxy baptism records dated Feb. 18, showing the ritual was performed in the Santo Domingo Temple in the Dominican Republic.
The Mormon church almost immediately issued a statement, though it didn't mention Frank by name.
"The Church keeps its word and is absolutely firm in its commitment to not accept the names of Holocaust victims for proxy baptism," the Salt Lake City-based church said. "It is distressing when an individual willfully violates the Church's policy and something that should be understood to be an offering based on love and respect becomes a source of contention."
Church officials did not return telephone calls and emails from The Associated Press on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam declined comment.