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Pulpit letter about BFTD breaches...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:38 pm
by _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?

Re: Pulpit letter about BFTD breaches...

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:33 pm
by _aranyborju
No letter in my ward either. Baptism for the dead was not mentioned at all.

Re: Pulpit letter about BFTD breaches...

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:57 am
by _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.

Re: Pulpit letter about BFTD breaches...

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:08 pm
by _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.