Mormon baptisms on Holocaust victims, celebrities violated church policy

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church's massive genealogical database.
The LDS Church, in a statement, acknowledged the ceremonies violated its policy and said they would be invalidated, while also noting it