From the People Who Helped Bring You Proposition 8

[furrbear]

How apropos as we remember the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. BTW, one of the the first things the Nazis went after was marriage for the Jews.

Dead, but baptized, Jews.

Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database that will make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite that has been a common Mormon practice for more than a century.

But Ernest Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said that is not enough. At a news conference in New York City on Monday, he said the church also must “implement a mechanism to undo what you have done.”

“Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable,” said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.

[EDIT to add a link to the Nuremberg Laws. H/T allanh.]

Comments

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

John - wow.

More evidence of the craziiness, intolerance, and - well, cluelessness in the way only true cults are.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

The angel on the top of their temples is named Moroni. That's Moron + I. 'Nuff said?

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Wow, they piss me off as a gay man and then as a Jew!

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

Do you have anything useful to add to the conversation, or is it all just snark?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Sorry Paul. Sometimes the frustration and anger wins.

I did my own No on 8 education and GOTV drive among all my relatives still in CA - even the religious conservative bunch in Concord. Everyone else I know in the state is GLBT, and they all voted early according to what they told me.

Even though Dave's on disability and I under-employed and we don't have much extra cash, we both gave until it literally hurt.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

You might want to amend this post to add a link to the Nuremberg Laws:

http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/gerblood.htm