And they didn’t even take it all off
A Las Vegas man who devised a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing and possible excommunication because of the project.
A lifetime member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chad Hardy, was summoned by letter to a Sunday meeting with a council of elders to discuss his “conduct unbecoming a member of the church.”
A copy of the letter from Frank E. Davie, the senior leader over a group of Mormon congregations in the Las Vegas area, was sent early this week, days before the 2009 version of the “Men on a Mission” calendar went to press, Hardy said in a telephone interview.
A takeoff on calendars of firefighters and returned U.S. servicemen, Hardy’s project features 12 returned church missionaries in mostly modest poses, minus their trademark white shirts and ties.
It has sold nearly 10,000 copies.
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