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And the church considers the ritual too essential to forswear. “With deepest respect to our Jewish friends, the church cannot abandon fundamental aspects of its religious doctrine and practice,” the church writes on its website, “and it should not be...
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Also contributing to that coverage was the inappropriate proxy baptism of the parents of his fellow Holocaust survivor, Simon Wiesenthal. The LDS Church has publicly apologized for the Wiesenthal baptisms, noting that they were done contrary to church...
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People walk to Mormon Provo Temple to do temple ordinances in Provo January 16, 2012. This is one of the Mormon temples where posthumous baptisms for Rosa and Asher Wiesenthal, the long-dead Jewish parents of famed Nazi hunter and Holocaust survivor... View Photo »
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It wasn't Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum or even Barack Obama, but the parents of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who triggered the latest round. According to an apology issued by the Mormon church, a renegade baptizer included the names of...
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GOP celebrates stimulus?s 3rd birthday--DNC: Romney took Olympic bailout--Florida delegates will get better digs in Charlotte than Tampa--Santorum invokes Jeremiah Wright
The Politico
Tim Mak says Webster insists the errors did not change the outcome. The state GOP announced Romney had won Saturday, even though he led by fewer than 200 votes and not all municipalities had reported r
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Mitt Romney: The Mormon card is now being played against Republican presidential candidate
Daily Mail - UK
Because, like most observant LDS Church members, he wears Mormon undergarments. And as Bill Maher made plain last year, these 'temple garments' (as Mormons call them) can and will be mocked as 'magic underwear'. Baptism: The Mormon Provo Temple in...
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Chief Nazi hunter of the US-based Jewish rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, talks to the press after the Hungarian Nazi war crime suspect Sandor Kepiro was cleared of charges, at the Budapest Municipal Court on July 18, 2011. ... View Photo »
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Simon Wiesenthal's parents are long since deceased, with his father dying in World War I and his mother perishing in the Holocaust. Wiesenthal himself died in 2005 after surviving the Holocaust and dedicating his life to documenting Nazi crimes and...
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But unlike Rick Santorum, who is a Catholic, Romney is a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints - a Mormon - who religion is considered strange and suspect by many Americans. Now, that's becoming increasingly difficult to do after Mormon church...
About Simon Wiesenthal
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Simon Wiesenthal (December 31, 1908 - September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals in an effort to bring them to justice. Full Article
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