'I can't...I'm Mormon' T-shirts too hot

WorldNetDaily ^ | 9/29/04

[Colofornian]

'I can't...I'm Mormon'

If the ads are censored, is that an indicator that the shirts should be censored, too? If offered such a t-shirt for free, is the proper response, "I can't...I'm Mormon."

[Prime Choice]

I think the folks at BYU are being overly-sensitive.

I doubt they'd have any objections if the shirts said, "I won't...I'm Mormon."

[newheart]

Didn't stop Mark Hacking.

[katana]

Maybe they can expand the range to include all the faiths. Considering the moral and behavioral restrictions that nearly if not all religions require of believers "I can't, I'm Catholic" (abort a fetus), "I can't, I'm Jewish" (eat a pork chop), or "I can't, I'm Baptist" (go out dancing - chuckle) just about everybody can have a shirt of their own.

[EaglesUpForever]

or you just point to the tattoo that reads "I can't, I'm Mormon." That is, if you can...

[sierrahome]

I Can't...I'm John Kerry or is that "I Can" "no, no I can't"

[EternalVigilance]

How's about this one for when a Dem campaign worker comes to your door:

"I can't, I'm an American"

[Grig]

The newspaper is well within it's rights to refuse to run the ad (which can still be run in many other publications). If the shirt said "I won't" or "I don't" instead of "I can't" I doubt there would be any fuss about it.

BYU is a private University funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Students are required to sign onto a code of behavior that includes a dress code. If University officals deem the shirt in violation of the dress code, students will not be allowed to wear it, but I don't know the dress code well enough to say if the shirt would be considered in violation.

[Andiceman]

or "I've already done it - I'm a liberal"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I like that one.

[Saundra Duffy]

Mormons don't mess around.

[Spiff]

I doubt they'd have any objections if the shirts said, "I won't...I'm Mormon

Much better. Too bad they shirt designer didn't think of that.

[Grig]

There are two ways to take it, either as "I am so committed to my faith that I will not lower my standards." or as "I would love to lower my standards but my religion has more control over my life than I do."

[TXBubba]

"I didn't identify with it. I couldn't even relate," he said. "Anybody who's lived outside Utah has said this a hundred times."

I'm not Mormon but I have heard this stated from other Mormons not from Utah. A couple who have gone to Utah for school have found the folks there a lot different from the ones they go to church with, say in Texas.

[Gingersnap]

I think BYU is being a little over sensitive here but they can do what they want.

I totally understood the designer's point. About half of my family is LDS and none of them live in Utah. They do spend a lot of time saying this very thing. Non-Utah LDS have to be a lot more vocal and proactive when it comes to saying no. In Utah, a lot of things are just taken for granted.

[Prime Choice]

There are two ways to take it, either as "I am so committed to my faith that I will not lower my standards." or as "I would love to lower my standards but my religion has more control over my life than I do."

True...and I think the latter, derogatory connotation is more inferred than implied. There is no sure-fire defense against the perceptions of the perverted.

I noted from the article that the "I can't...I'm Mormon" slogan started because the creator was tired of explaining why he wouldn't drink alcohol. My answer to such situations was very simple, "None for me, thanks. I've had enough."

[xm177e2]

Next shirt: "We can't take it... we're Mormon administrators!"

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Mitt Romney needs a shirt like that to wear everytime the Democrat-controlled legislature brings a bill to his desk! lol

[TXBubba]

None for me, thanks. I've had enough

Are you aware this implies you have already been drinking?

[connectthedots]

Many thought wearers of the clothing wished they could drink, smoke or have casual sex – but were prevented solely because of their membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Far more do than one might think.