{"id":31274,"date":"2012-03-10T03:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T03:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_salt_lake_tribune_mormon_church_blocks_whistle-blowers_access_to_baptis\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T03:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T03:05:58","slug":"the_salt_lake_tribune_mormon_church_blocks_whistle-blowers_access_to_baptis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31274","title":{"rendered":"(The Salt Lake Tribune) Mormon church blocks whistle-blower\u2019s access to baptism data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A technological crackdown, telegraphed by Mormon leaders, has effectively blocked the pre-eminent whistle-blower of controversial proxy baptisms from accessing the LDS Church\u2019s database that chronicles so-called baptisms for the dead.<\/p>\n<p>LDS officials defend the move, saying it helps prevent overzealous Mormons and mischief-makers from violating church policy by submitting the names of prominent Jewish figures, such as Anne Frank and Daniel Pearl, both discovered on the baptism rolls in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/53667482-78\/church-names-radkey-proxy.html.csp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technological crackdown, telegraphed by Mormon leaders, has effectively blocked the pre-eminent whistle-blower of controversial proxy baptisms from accessing the LDS Church\u2019s database that chronicles so-called baptisms for the dead. LDS officials defend the move, saying it helps prevent overzealous<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31274\">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":[39,42,581,178,161,429,428,155,108,173,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-eschatology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-judaism","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sacramental-theology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274","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=31274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}