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Mormons around the world are getting this warning Sunday: Stop posthumous baptisms of "unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims."
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Many religious traditions stress the importance of charity. But Mormons are remarkable for the amount and the precision with which they give to their church.
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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has said that John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech advocating strict separation of church and state almost made him throw up. But scholars say Kennedy's speech has to be taken in the context of a vastly different political climate — one that was hostile to Catholics.
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Pearl was Jewish and was captured and killed by terrorists while reporting in Pakistan in 2002.
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There's a noticeable streak of Mormon libertarianism in the West, and the Ron Paul campaign has actively courted that vote. While Republican Mitt Romney retains strong support among many of his faith, others see their religion more in line with a much smaller-government approach to politics.
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Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's name and those of his father and grandfather appeared on a list used to select people for posthumous Mormon baptisms. Wiesel is calling on Mitt Romney to use his stature as perhaps the nation's most prominent Mormon to condemn the practice. Romney has not commented.
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The Mormon Church responded with an apology and an unprecedented public rebuke of the responsible Church member.
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Mormonism will affect the foreign policies of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman — just not in the way you might expect. Molly Whorten of The Nation talks about the history and future of Mormonism and politics.