Read THIS part of my post again: "”We Mormons, believing ourselves to be superior to all other faiths, take upon ourselves the right to insult non-mormons by desecrating their dead, and we don't give a damn if others object!"
If mormon cemetaries were visited, bodies dug up and desecrated, the "poor persecuted mormons" wail would be deafening.
The dead of Christian faiths are NOT made available for mormons to just co-opt for their silly temple rituals....using their names in these rituals is theft! Mormons steal the names and enter them in their records as being "baptized, confirmed as a member of the mormon church and "sealed" to another stolen person's name. These records are then archived and in the future it will appear that these souls voluntarily became members of the mormon church!
Mormon excuses are simply stating that THEY have the right to do this because they are "the one true and living church" and the dead of the world is nothing but fodder for their unChristian actions.
It is a disgusting practice!
The wrongful baptism of Jewish dead, which disparages the memory of a deceased person is a brazen act which will obscure the historical record for future generations. It has been bitterly opposed by many Jews for a number of years. Others say they will never stop being Jews, simply because there is a paper saying they had been baptized, that the act of posthumous baptism is unimportant and should be ignored. We think this to be a narrow, parochial, and shallow view. We will continue opposing this wrongful act which assimilates our dead to the point where it will not be possible to know who was Jewish in their lifetimes.
A protest drive initiated by Jewish genealogists escalated it to a nationally publicized issue that was followed by public outcry. American Jewish leaders considered it an insult and a major setback for interfaith relations. They initiated discussions with the Mormon Church that culminated in a voluntary 1995 agreement by the Church to remove the inappropriate names. Activists continue to monitor Mormon baptismal lists, seeking removal of inappropriate entries.
Has the church done anything to uphold its decade-old agreement with the Jewish community? The bad news is that the Mormons did (and still do) hijack Jewish genocide victims and other Jewish dead. Moreover, when a Jew is baptized, the door is open for all of his deceased ancestors to be baptized as well. Regrettably, their baptismal records place before the public a revisionist view that these deceased Jews were Mormons, a position they would have rejected in life.
The Issue of The Mormon Baptisms of Jewish Holocaust Victims and Other Jewish Dead
You are right, it is a DISGUSTING practice. It is also deceitful and arrogant! God bless you and yours, Grey, for fighting the good fight.