The Mormons have the right and should have the right to baptize (for the dead) anybody that they want (so long as they are dead.) It is part and parcel to their religious beliefs and quite frankly I don't think anyone has a right to tell them to stop it. I would say that they are not being true to their religious convictions if they stop doing this or if they become selective on who they can and cannot baptize for the dead.
I've never understood how anybody can get worked up over our baptisms for the dead.
If they think we are full of beans, and that we are only deluding ourselves as to the effectiveness of such baptisms, why would they care if we do it? It is such an irrational issue.
In the world of political correctness it is offensive. How dare the Mormons baptize non-Mormons into their church after they are dead.
Geez it seems that those offended must believe that it works. That somehow if the Mormons baptize them, then they are sudenly transported from their Jewish hereafter into the Mormon hereafter or some such nonsense.
The whole idea behind Mormons baptizing others for the dead is their belief that there is a chance after death that will be given to every man to accept the gospel according to Mormonism and if you do accept that gospel posthumously, then as part of your conversion process you must be physically baptized by proxy by someone with the proper authority and since you are now dead, that needs to be done by someone here on earth.
It really doesn't make a lot of sense, but nevertheless it is a cornerstone of their religious beliefs and for someone to come along and freak out because the Mormons baptized their great grandmother by proxy in some Temple Ceremony is assinine. But the political correctness often gives us assinine results.
As far as I'm concerned, they can baptize all the dead relatives of mine that they can find. Hey, wait, they already have. :-)
"I've never understood how anybody can get worked up over our baptisms for the dead."
Religious Jews think you're nuts and rude (disrespectful of the dead) for doing this.
But mostly harmless.
That said, it does rekindle the insult of forced conversions (e.g., Spanish Inquisition and other forced assimilations (e.g., what Hannukka is all about, albeit with the Greeks).
Secular Jews are just generally anti-anyone religious.
Me, my opinion falls under "mostly harmless."