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I thought they had them in a temple somewhere and don't let anyone look at them. By contrast, the Ark of the Covenant is allegedly either in a church in Ethiopia or a giant US government warehouse hidden amongst thousands of anonymous boxes.

Every religion has this sort of stuff, you know. Why just pick on Mormons? Orthdox Jews have absurd Mitvoh that only they recognize while all other Jews just roll their eyes, Catholics have their Shroud of Turin and preposterous Vatican-acknowleged insertions of the Virgin Mary into Mexico City thereby supplanting an Aztec fertility goddess to win over the Mestizo indians. Anglican Protestants used to call the English monarch the head of the True Church on Earth at the same time they declared 'No King But Jesus'. Islam is full of hypocritical insanities and any Imam can call for a fatwa that all other Muslims must honor. Don't even get me started on Hindus and Buddhists, although the latter are the least offensive religious adherents on Earth in my opinion. Shinto even produced divine kamikaze pilots.

Every religion has these inanities. It's just that some are ancient and others are relatively modern.

Whatever happened to staying out of another American's religious business? I recently took a political poll and found out that I am closest to Huckabee in ideology, but I want him to know that there's no assurance whatsoever that I'd vote for him if he doesn't keep his snake-handling Pentacostal speaking-in-tongues mouth shut on other candidate's religion.