Anyone who mocks religion is okay in my books. If we ever want to be free of this nonsense, we have to ridicule it into extinction.

Having a problem with the after death baptisms is a legitimate issue. But laying the blame for it at Romney's feet isn't legitimate.  It's akin to blaming a catholic for the church's ban on gay marriage. That can only be changed by the Pope so what's the sense of blaming a regular catholic or even a parish priest? It's the same thing here. Only the president of the Morman Church can change that practice. I just see these kind of comments against Romney's mormanism as being rather intellectually lazy. There are so many ways to criticize him so when someone has to backslide to use someones religion against them it's just being lazy and/or ignorant.

Yea sorry if they are baptizing non-believers against their will then they are the ones who declared open season.

How did this joke fall flat? Because the targets became offended? That's kind of the point of jokes like this, so I'd say it hit the nail on the head.

Why don't the Mormons baptize these people? It only seems right http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre

If Mormons don't want to be jabbed at, then don't baptize dead people and wade into political issues (prop 8?).

This is nothing to do with Mormons, it's to do with Mitt Romney baptising the corpse of an athiest. You can't tell me that's not worth mocking.

It's not as tho all Mormons participate in
proxy baptism… & it's not like they are
taking bodies or remains and baptizing
them. It basically the equivalent of saying
a prayer for their soul.

@amyb13 the words of a bigot.

The right to not be offended doesn't actually exist, you know. True fact.

All religion deserves to be mocked. I've had it with “respect” when they clearly have none for non-believers.

Just because it's a religion doesn't mean you can't criticize it. If the Mormons can't take it maybe they should stop “baptizing” dead people who weren't Mormon. That being said, it isn't Romney's fault.

when did the internet agree to be offended by jokes about baptizing the dead? because this specific topic has been joked about pretty consistently for the last few days/weeks. and it IS effed up. she shouldn't have apologized.

She is ridiculing Romney because of his religion. A number of you sadly seem to approve.  Romney has nothing to do with what official Morman church does. Also the Morman church has taken steps to stop the practice of baptizing holocaust victims because of the protests by people like Elie Wiesel. Someone can criticize the Morman church, there are legitimate criticisms out there but what this so-called journalist did is just ignorant.

It was funny. Hate that she apologized. If people can't take their religion being questioned- then maybe their belief's aren't as solid as they would like to believe. Besides, she wasn't dissing the religion- just the phenomenally idiotic baptisms for the dead!

I don't have a problem with her making Mormon jokes; however Romney has nothing to do with what Mormons do in the Dominican Republic so it's kind of unfair for her to criticize him for it.

She's not even necessarily ridiculing Mormonism as a whole - she was making a joke about their posthumous baptisms. And those baptisms ARE wrong.

Ugh, religion is totally fair game for critique and ridicule, because it's not some intrinsic quality like ethnicity and no one's forcing you to believe it (unless you live in a violently theocratic state). People who can't take jokes about their religion are probably also the ones who can never have a intelligent discussion to defend it either. Since they don't have a thoughtful justification, everything is a threat to their faith. And, please, Muslims face much worse than a fucking Twitter joke in post-9/11 USA.