Stay classy, Mormons

Mitt Romney is breathing a sigh of relief today that he didn't get the GOP nomination over McCain. Why is that? No, not because he had a chance of winning and would have had to face the pig flu/economic crisis. But because it turns out that right in the middle of the campaign season last year, his very own Church of Latter Day Saints decided to posthumously baptize Barack Obama's mother into the Mormon faith. If that had come out during the increased scrutiny of Mitt and the LDS church during a Romney/Obama Presidential campaign you would have heard three things: 1. Romney's political career audibly dying as he either defended it, admitted to having taken part in previous posthumous baptisms, or attempted to throw his entire religion under the bus. 2. Barack Obama cracking his knuckles in preparation for...3. Obama's fist being punched cleanly through the skull of the first Mormon he saw. Which would have probably been Romney.

Via Americablog:

A reader contacted me last week, saying that last year, in the heat of the presidential campaign, the Mormons had posthumously baptized Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. Baptizing the dead of other faith's, secretly and without the consent of their families, is a common Mormon practice. For the past fifteen years the Mormons have caused quite a stir by forcibly baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims - in other words, converting them to Mormonism - despite strong objections from the Jewish community.

Thus, it's hardly a stretch to imagine the Mormons' doing this to Obama's mother. Still, I had no proof. Then yesterday, I received a document. It's allegedly a screen capture of the registration-only section of the Mormon-run Web site, FamilySearch.org. In that screen capture, excerpted above, is clearly the name and correct date of birth and death of Barack Obama's mother (Stanley Ann Dunham, born 29 Nov 1942 in Kansas, died 07 Nov 1995) and the date of her alleged post-death baptism by the Mormons. You can see the entire document here
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So we know that the Mormons do in fact have President Obama's mother in their public database. We know that the Mormons have a policy of baptizing into the Mormon faith, without consent, every single person who dies on the planet. And we have a non-public document that mirrors the public documents to a T, and which says that the Mormons baptized President Obama's mother on June 4, 2008 - in the middle of the presidential race.

Reach your own conclusions.

Nice. At least they haven't gotten around to posthumously baptizing any other dead members of the President's family. Go visit Americablog for the whole sordid little story.