By posting this diatribe on a public forum you ARE preaching to me and everyone else...
Perhaps you should take it to email or a caucus thread if you don't want to be interrupted and inconvenienced with the truth of the God of the Scriptures has to say about the issues...
And to respond to your post,
Dismas, the Good Thief, crucified with my Savior and yours, was promised by the Savior that he would be in paradise with Him on the original Good Friday, no muss, no fuss, no baptism of the ordinary sort. We Catholics would say that he underwent the baptism of desire but you might well disagree.
Well of course...You have no choice but to say that to bolster your church's position that you at least have to WANT to get wet as a requirement for salvation...
And of course as well, the thief was admitted to Paradise because he BELIEVED in Jesus as the scripture states and NOT anything to do with Baptism...
Five minutes in the Catechism will show that this is not true.