Ms. Drake, if you actually have Mormon friends, I find it impossible to believe that you have not seen them also serving their communities in countless ways, including all the ways you cite. Every Mormon I know gives money and time to serve the less-fortunate in selfless, Christian ways, including donating time and money at food banks and all the rest. If you were to do a little research about the billions their Church gives away in conjunction with other faith groups, you would be shocked. Wow, a comment by you about self-righteous is ironic in the extreme.

It seems absurd to me that anyone would care what the Mormons do in this or any other regard. If the church is bogus, their actions mean nothing. If the church is true, then well-meaning people are doing something for their ancestors (as the article notes, the Church has complied with the requests of the Jews, except that Mormons continue to do temple work for their own ancestors, some of whom happen to be Holocaust survivors). Some people’s sense of outrage seems always to be set to “Super Sensitive.” If I learned a Catholic friend had prayed for me, or a Jewish friend had remembered me in a ceremony, I would be grateful and honored. What’s the difference?