This is not the case. Most Protestants don't believe in speaking in tongues!

Pentecostals believe that speaking in tongues is the sign that you've been Baptized in the Holy Spirit. This is a term which refers to a secondary grace which follows from being Born Again (which they believe happens when they accept Christ by faith as Lord and Savior). We, as Catholics, understand that being Born Again happens when we are baptized, be it as infants, or adults.

Charismatic Catholics also use the term baptism in the Holy Spirit. It's an easy term to use even if it's theologically sloppy, however Catholics don't believe that it is the first evidence of having received this grace.

Rather it is a release of the graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit that we received in Confirmation or Chrismation. Along with these gifts, we all receive certain phenomenal gifts such as prophecy, tongues, and healing, etc.

Tongues, because it's a form of prayer (at least in one use), is a gift available to all believers but is not necessarily released or used. Most of the other gifts are also available to all believers but used on a as need basis as the Holy Spirit leads us.

Now there a very few Pentecostals that do believe speaking in tongues is a sign of being saved but those are few and far between.

So whomever sent in this question is either not explaining what they mean by baptism as in the meaning of:

• baptism, or
• baptism in the Holy Spirit, or
• they are part of a very small sect.

John