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The creator of the calendar is facing excommunication. - Page 2 - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 13th Jul, 2008 - 4:26pm
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Each of the 12 men featured in the sexy calendar has recently returned from a mission
Post Date: 29th Sep, 2007 - 12:21am / Post ID: #
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| How does this differ from Miss 'x', who is an LDS Member, and who parades her body on stage in a bathing suit and be praised by LDS Members? We have a Thread on that somewhere. |
I havent heard of this, so I can't say anything on it yet....can you provide the link please ?
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| One of the models, Jonathan Martin, 25, from Houston, felt the same fear that other missionaries experienced. However, he also agreed with Hardy that the calendar would go a ways towards busting the missionary stereotype. |
...busting the missionary stereotype? So they are trying to say that missionaries are sexy and not just conservative? Just showing muscles? Then soon when we see the girls pics come out people will say...just showing the mid area or the stomach thats all!
I'm sorry but this is just wrong! If they were at the beach or a pool it would be okay but this is not necessary at all!
Remember when they get endowed the promises....This is not showing or representing RM's in any good way...my opinion.
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| Affect their testimonies? In what way having a pic of a shirtless returned missionary would affect someone's testimony? |
You are really asking that in a day and age where it takes so little to offend or move someone's train of thought or feelings? Well, converts see these men in the way they may see 'monks' to a degree. To see one posed like this may give a different impression o all that was said / done by the same person.
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| Like I said, if these guys are into modeling or want to break into the industry... |
My problem is not in them wanting to model. I do not see anything wrong with modeling so long as it is done in good taste, HOWEVER, this is more than just modeling, this is putting sensual together with sacred and that is a definite no-no.
| Rather off topic, but... There are many examples where LDS contestants go before judges and the world in typical bathing suit wear. I did a quick Search for Topics within the Community: * Miss Latina - talks about pageant and her baptism * Dressing For Modesty * Miss Junior Crowned There is probably more if you search them out. |
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Okay this might sound bad and dont hate me but I think it is a cool idea. It will give people a chance to see that we are just people too and not everything is about church all the time.
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I have several problems with it:
1. That they are calling it "Mormons Exposed" - as if the church is condoning/sponsoring/producing this thing, when in reality the church is not promoting it at all, and is probably deeply embarrassed. If they want to break into modeling, let them do it without getting the church involved.
2. As JB pointed out, people were converted to the gospel by these young men. What are these folks supposed to think about them now exposing their bodies in a controversial way? What about folks from other countries who don't understand "Western" thinking?
3. The producer of this calendar says it's to prove we aren't "puritanical." Excuse me? The LDS Church is one of the most conservative on Earth. What planet is he living on?
4. It IS pornographic. They aren't showing anything "below the belt" but the entire idea is to be "sexy" and to "expose" these young men - for what? Money. I don't care if "some" of the proceeds will go back to where they served their missions. They are all getting some type of financial gain from doing this calendar, and using their positions as former Missionaries of the church to do it. That's sacrilegious, in my opinion.
Post Date: 29th Sep, 2007 - 7:30pm / Post ID: #
Returned Missionaries In "sexy" Calendars
Amen, Farseer!
I can't even comprehend how one could think that this idea will put the Church in a better light. This is, IMO, so far away from the gospel message as it can get. This is the simplest way of trying to, could I say, promoting the Church.
Maybe I am very conservative, but I feel that members who are modelling without clothes which covers the areas that the garments would cover are walking on a thin edge. People are of course free to chose for them selves...
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| QUOTE (joheri @ 29-Sep 07, 3:30 PM) |
| Maybe I am very conservative, but I feel that members who are modelling without clothes which covers the areas that the garments would cover are walking on a thin edge. People are of course free to chose for them selves... |
So you oppose LDS girls modeling in swim wear in a beauty queen competition?
I suppose that I am not extremely conservative. The ONLY issue I have with the pictures is to see their returned missionary pics along with the calendar one. If returned missionaries want to model, then great but no need for Church "endorsement".
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The creator of the calendar is facing excommunication.
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| SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Las Vegas man who was the creative brains behind a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing and possible excommunication for the project. Chad Hardy was summoned by letter to a Sunday meeting in Las Vegas with a council of elders to discuss his "conduct unbecoming a member of the church." Hardy's Las Vegas Stake President Frank E. Davie has confirmed the meeting and says the calendar was the primary issue, although there are other concerns. A takeoff on calendars of firefighters and returned U.S. servicemen, Hardy's project debuted in 2008, featuring 12 returned church missionaries in mostly modest poses, minus their trademark white shirts, ties and black plastic name badges. So far, it's sold nearly 10,000 copies.... |
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