{"id":31026,"date":"2012-02-24T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_turner_mormons_and_baptism_by_proxy\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T22:05:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:05:56","slug":"john_turner_mormons_and_baptism_by_proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31026","title":{"rendered":"John Turner: Mormons and Baptism by Proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do George Washington, Albert Einstein and Stanley Ann Durham (Barack Obama&#8217;s mother) have in common? Mormons have baptized each of them by proxy, performing a temple rite they believe gives human beings a posthumous opportunity to obtain salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers recently discovered that Mormons had similarly baptized the parents of famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, whose mother died in a Nazi extermination camp in 1942. And one Mormon recently proposed for proxy baptism the still-living Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.<\/p>\n<p>This esoteric practice doesn&#8217;t always provoke complaints\u201d\u201dPresident Obama refused to comment on his mother&#8217;s case, for instance\u201d\u201dbut it has strained Mormon-Jewish relations over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203918304577240982269172786.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do George Washington, Albert Einstein and Stanley Ann Durham (Barack Obama&#8217;s mother) have in common? Mormons have baptized each of them by proxy, performing a temple rite they believe gives human beings a posthumous opportunity to obtain salvation. Researchers<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31026\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,581,178,429,428,155,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-eschatology","category-judaism","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}