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Romney asked to denounce baptisms

Elie Wiesel criticizes Mormon tradition for deceased Jews

By Michael Levenson
Globe Staff / February 18, 2012
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Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner, whose parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon ritual last month, said yesterday he continues to be frustrated with Mitt Romney for not speaking out against the practice. “He is a Mormon, and since he’s running for president - the highest office in the land - he should know what is happening and he should have simply, ‘it is wrong,’ ’’ Wiesel said in an interview.

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