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Article: Clinton, Hatch discuss Holocaust baptisms
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2004
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Despite a directive from LDS Church leaders to stop the practice,
church members have continued posthumously baptizing Jewish Holocaust
victims into the LDS faith.
A New York Jewish organization was so outraged that it asked U.S.
Sen. Hillary Clinton to intervene, prompting a meeting in early March
between the former first lady and Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch,
an LDS Church member, the Associated Press has learned.
"It was a private meeting between two senators," Clinton said when
declining to comment on what was discussed. Likewise, Hatch, through
a spokesman, would not comment, calling it a private matter.
However, Ernest Michel, chairman of the New York-based World
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