Why does the Mormon church want to baptize Gandhi?

It was with a deep sense of sadness that I read reports in today's newspapers that Mahatma Gandhi has been baptized by a Mormon Church in the United States of America.  I guess you can understand the reason for my sadness.  I would like to state very unequivocally that I believe in tolerance and respect for all cultures and religious practices. This is a lesson that I have learnt by reading the works of the great Mahatma himself.  But this particular wanton (and I use this expression deliberately and after proper consideration) act is something that defies all logic.  Everybody who knows Gandhi knows that he was somebody who believed in the final message of all religions.  And anyone who knows Gandhi will also know that he was somebody who strongly believed in the concept of Sanatana Dharma. The openness of his mind allowed him to grasp what he thought were great principles of many religions and Christianity was one of them.  Gandhi's introduction to Christianity and specifically the Sermon on the Mount delivered by Jesus Christ came through his reading of  Leo Tolstoy whose writings were morally instructive.  But to think that this openness of mind and the eclecticism that existed in Gandhi as far as religious practices were concerned made him something like, in this instance, a Mormon is really carrying things too far.  

One really does not know if Gandhi subscribed to Christianity in toto.  Just because he agreed with the moral aspect of the said religion does not mean that he also accepted that by birth he was a sinner, not because of some deed that he had committed, but because he was carrying the stigma of the temptation that Eve succumbed to and led to the fall of Man from Paradise.  It is rather amusing that a man who has been dead for a good sixty years and was born about a hundred and forty years ago is today being baptized.  But if you see the act of the Mormon church it can also be inferred that somehow it is trying to convey that Gandhi was a sinner and that he needed to be cleansed of his sins and if this inference can be true (and there is no reason to believe that it is false) it is obviously a deliberate attempt to mock the greatness of Gandhi.  When seen in this light, the act is hardly amusing, far from it, it can also be infuriating. And what makes the issue even more difficult to accept is that the Mormons are known polygamists and their own sect is not something that is treated with any great respect by any other sects within Christianity or by other Orders of the Christian Church.

One can probably delve into the reasons behind this act which is at its most innocent mischievous and when it is not innocent it is positively sinister.  It is sad that apart from Gandhi's grandson no political leader in the country found it necessary to protest against this. When the well known gay rights activist Ashok Row Kavi said something about Gandhi's sexuality in a talk show hosted by Nikki Vijayker on Star World, the country united as one to get that show banned.  Nikki Vijayker never again got to host another talk show.  When the great man is dead and cannot speak for himself it is perhaps time that our otherwise voluble politicians will say something of consequence.  If they do not speak up, their act will perhaps be worse than what the Mormon church did.