On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, D. Stussy wrote: > With some of the trends I have seen, perhaps the U.S. Government does > have it correctly interpreted: "Freedom of religion" includes "freedom > FROM religion." In that respect, they (ANY group) doesn't have the > right to impose their views on another. Here, they are imposing their > views on the deceased WITHOUT regard for the descendant living. This should be obvious but apparently it is not. The dead do not have the rights of the living. Once you've gone to your reward, you can no longer vote, marry, adopt, be libeled, buy or sell property, etc. And you don't have to pay taxes! (Your heirs do.) The same is true for being able to control the use of your name. When you are living, you have certain privacy rights. These cease when you die. A proxy baptism of your name after death in no ways alters the religious facts of your life while you were living. -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- Webmaster: Cynthia Van Ness, MLS -- roots@bfn.org Roots: The Buffalo NY Genealogy Forum -- http://www.bfn.org/~roots With obits, vital records, city directories & hundreds of local links