Well, well, well… looks like all the negative PR and how it may adversely affect Mitt's chances has finally pushed the mormon church to belatedly take some steps to get its members to stop submitting Jewish names for baptism.
Per the church-owned Deseret News story,
"It takes a good deal of deception and manipulation to get an improper submission [of a dead person's name] through the safeguards we have put in place," the [mormon church] statement reads. "While no system is foolproof in preventing the handful of individuals who are determined to falsify submissions, we are committed to taking action against individual abusers by suspending the submitter's access privileges. We will also consider whether other church disciplinary actions should be taken."
Those "other church disciplinary actions" could ultimately include excommunication, or loss of membership in the church.
One would think that with all the previous uproar about the practice, the church would have instituted a hard-line policy a lot earlier. I guess it took the story of Anne Frank getting baptized for the 9th time and the Wiesenthals at least once to finally make a difference.
PS: Did y'all know that every time Mitt Romney attends a mormon temple, he is acting as proxy and doing "work" for a dead person? See my previous diary for a list of all the ceremonies mormons perform for dead people!