In May of 2009 it was revealed that someone had performed Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) baptism for the dead on behalf of U.S. President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who passed away in 1995. As usual, the news was met with a combination of apathy and outrage. In a U.S.A. Today article posted on May 6, 2009, written by Cathy Lynn Grossman, we find the following: Another article posted in the Chicago Tribune [1] received this response from a reader quoting Mormon Apostle D. Todd Christofferson: