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'I can't...I'm Mormon' T-shirts too hot
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| 9/29/04
Posted on 09/30/2004 10:49:18 AM PDT by Colofornian
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'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."
To: Colofornian
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."
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posted on
09/30/2004 10:55:23 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(It is dangerous to be right when wicked is called 'good.')
To: Colofornian
Didn't stop Mark Hacking.
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posted on
09/30/2004 10:55:25 AM PDT
by
newheart
(The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
To: Colofornian
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.
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posted on
09/30/2004 10:55:32 AM PDT
by
katana
(Iraq: Bug Zapper of the Middle East)
To: Colofornian
or you just point to the tattoo that reads "I can't, I'm Mormon." That is, if you can...
To: katana
I Can't...I'm John Kerry or is that "I Can" "no, no I can't"
To: sierrahome
How's about this one for when a Dem campaign worker comes to your door:
"I can't, I'm an American"
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:03:03 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Barack Obama is the worst Senate candidate in U.S. history.)
To: Colofornian
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.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:07:13 AM PDT
by
Grig
To: katana
or "I've already done it - I'm a liberal"
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:07:28 AM PDT
by
Andiceman
To: EternalVigilance
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:07:28 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Colofornian
Mormons don't mess around.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:10:48 AM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(Save Terri Schiavo!!!)
To: Prime Choice
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.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:11:10 AM PDT
by
Spiff
(Don't believe everything you think.)
To: 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."
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:13:17 AM PDT
by
Grig
To: Colofornian
"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.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:19:02 AM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: Colofornian
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.
To: 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." 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."
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:19:14 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(It is dangerous to be right when wicked is called 'good.')
To: Colofornian
Next shirt: "We can't take it... we're Mormon administrators!"
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:20:34 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: Colofornian
Mitt Romney needs a shirt like that to wear everytime the Democrat-controlled legislature brings a bill to his desk! lol
To: Prime Choice
None for me, thanks. I've had enoughAre you aware this implies you have already been drinking?
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:21:31 AM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: Colofornian
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.
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