[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...

[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.

[Saundra Duffy]

Mormons don't mess around.

[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.

[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

[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.

[Galena Nevada]

I attended BYU for four years and worked at the school paper. Students there are just too sensitive for their own good. When I was at BYU, an ad in the school paper for a one piece swimming suit caused some to write to the paper to complain about the immodesty of the ad. I live in Nevada too, and agree with the shirt's designer...I use that phrase all the time, not because I want to drink, etc., but because it is a simple way to explain why I won't drink, etc. Everyone understands. Perhaps the offended students at BYU should spend their energies on some real problems. Some BYU students need a little Prozac.

[Hi Heels]

Silly politics. The shirts are fine.

I know, I'm female.

[Colofornian]

I can't...I'm Mormon

How about?

"I can't take a second wife...or third...or fourth... I'm Mormon."

Or, for the Charlotte Prebyterian-USA youth group volunteer just found guilty & sentenced to 5 years for disseminating child porn: "I can't...I'm just a (Pres) bit detained."

Or, for somebody dressed up as John D. Lee as a Halloween spoof: "I can't (massacre settlers)...I'm a Mormon bishop."

[evets]

[spiffy]

Some reportedly believed the woman modeling the T-shirt in the ad posed in an overly provocative manner.

May we see?
Please????

[Colofornian]

probably two weeks don't go by that we don't decline ads for the Daily Universe," he told the News.

Is this a double negative? Who does their PR?