One morning at 5:45 last week, a group of prosperous-looking men, most of them pallid and paunchy, drove up to a construction site in Salt Lake City, and began mixing and pouring concrete for a building floor. Two hours later, tired but happy, they hopped back into their Buicks and Chryslers, drove home for a shave, shower and breakfast. Then they headed downtown to their regular jobs as lawyers, bankers, doctors and businessmen.
These high-salaried, early-morning moonlighters were devout Mormons helping to build a new $600,000 chapel for a ward (parish) in Federal Heights, a prosperous Salt Lake City suburb where homes...