Pulpit letter about BFTD breaches...

[_Drifting]

Mormons around the world are getting this warning Sunday: Stop posthumous baptisms of "unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims."

"Our preeminent obligation is to seek out and identify our own ancestors," says a letter to be read in every Mormon congregation. "Those whose names are submitted for proxy [baptisms] should be related to the submitter."

No letter was read out yesterday in my ward, yours?

[_aranyborju]

No letter in my ward either. Baptism for the dead was not mentioned at all.

[_bcspace]

Letter was read two weeks ago in our area. My wife tells me the same letter is (or was) available on one of the Church's genealogical sites.

[_Drifting]

It seems that everyone registered with an online LDS ID etc has received an e mail containing the script of the letter.

All congregation and Stake leaders have also been circulated the letter.
Each Bishop has determined himself whether or not to read it out. I guess that on the basis of wards where members are less questioning a policy of 'let sleeping dogs lie' has been adopted.