Controversial calendar rocks Mormon Church
Makeup artist Justina Brittain, left, model Brandon Romain, center, and photographer Shane O’Neal, right, work in a Las Vegas studio during a photo shoot for a controversial calendar of Mormon missionaries. Chad Hardy, an entrepreneur and lapsed Mormon, has created a stir with his hunky calendar. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Chad Hardy, center, an entrepreneur and lapsed Mormon, talks on the phone as makeup artist Justina Brittain, left, prepares model Brandon Romain, right, for a photo shoot for a controversial calendar of Mormon missionaries in Las Vegas. Hardy was excommunicated from the church, and Brigham Young University withheld his diploma. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Brandon Romain does push-ups in a Las Vegas studio before a photo shoot for a controversial calendar of Mormon missionaries. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Entrepreneur Chad Hardy, center, prepares models Michael Walker, left, and Brandon Romain, right, for a photo shoot for a controversial calendar of Mormon missionaries in Las Vegas. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
A copy of the Book of Mormon and a controversial calendar depicting Mormon missionaries sit on a desk at a Las Vegas studio. The calendar showing chiseled Mormon men in scriptural settings is the idea of entrepreneur Chad Hardy. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
