Ethics

Converting Dead Mormons

By Ed Brayton

This is a couple weeks old, but someone emailed it to me and I think it's funny. A DailyKos poster has the great idea of converting dead Mormons to homosexuality:

As you know, Mormons have a practice of converting dead people from other religions into Mormons through a practice known as posthumous baptism. Ordinarily, this might just seem a silly act of disrespect towards the individual's personal beliefs and convictions.

However, the Mormons have made an overt effort to posthumously baptize Jewish Holocaust victims. That is not merely silly and disrespectful, that is superfluously offensive. An agreement between Jews and Mormons limited the practice thirteen years ago. But the Mormons returned to the practice recently.

Well, then of course, many of us rightly took offense for the heavy Mormon influence during the Prop 8 vote in California. Well, I decided to kill two birds with one stone. I am converting dead Mormons into homosexuals.

My first Conversion is Joseph Smith.

You go boy.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).